ReFocus
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2022
320 pages
978-1-4744-7767-3 (ISBN)
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Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell's career and work
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Matthew Melia
ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell
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12/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Bernard Rose
- Introduction
- Part 1 Contextualising Ken Russell
- 1 Ken Russell: The Boy behind the Man
- 2 Performed Masculinities: Oliver Reed in Ken Russell's Films of the 'Long 1960s'
- 3 Ken Russell's Gothic Modernism
- Part 2 Ken Russell and Television
- 4 Ken Russell and Television Advertising
- 5 Quartet: Ken Russell's Painter Biopics and How they Anticipate the Later Cinematic Work
- 6 'An Authentic Part of the History of European Painting': Ken Russell's Early Engagement with the Pre-Raphaelites
- Part 3 Design, Staging and Stardom
- 7 Shirley Russell and the Role of The Boy Friend in 1970s Retro
- 8 'No Better Director to Learn From': The Collaboration and Parallel Careers of Ken Russell and Derek Jarman
- 9 The Hermeneutics of Noise: The Sounds of Salvation in Ken Russell's Tommy
- 10 Mythologising Valentino: Stardom, Biography and Performance in Ken Russell's Valentino
- Part 4 Transgression and the Russell Legacy
- 11 An Extraordinary Parallel: Ken Russell and Dennis Potter Side by Side
- 12 Ken Russell and the Sexual Dimension of the Outsider Artist: An Exploration of Elgar: The Erotic Variations and Delius: A Moment with Venus
- 13 A Short History of Ken Russell's Films in Japan
- 14 Nicolas Winding Refn and the Ken Russell Style
- Part 5 A Word from the Editor . . .
- 15 Ken Russell's Song of Summer: The Virtue of Restraint
- Index
