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A celebration of the work of Ken Russell. A portrait of the man and his art from the 1950s to the great films of the 1960s and 1970s, the cult films of the 1980s, through to the digital short films with which he ended his career. Talking About Ken Russell includes hundreds of exclusive interviews with Russell and the people who worked with him, and includes, for example, the first-hand testimonies of more than a dozen people who worked on Women in Love, and twenty-three members of the cast and crew of The Devils. Actors, editors, designers, continuity...

The extraordinary and revealing diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time.

As a director, critic, writer and actor, Lindsay Anderson established a reputation as one of the most innovative, impassioned and fiercely independent British artists of the twentieth century. In directing films such as If, This Sporting Life and O Lucky Man he championed a new wave of social responsiveness in British cinema, while as director at the Royal Court he was responsible for establishing the reputation of a number of...

A celebration of the work of Ken Russell. A portrait of the man and his art from the 1950s to the great films of the 1960s and 1970s, the cult films of the 1980s, through to the digital short films with which he ended his career. Talking About Ken Russell includes hundreds of exclusive interviews with Russell and the people who worked with him, and includes, for example, the first-hand testimonies of more than a dozen people who worked on Women in Love, and twenty-three members of the cast and crew of The Devils. Actors, editors, designers, continuity women, producers, assistants, special...

In this stunning 13,000 word essay, the historian Paul Sutton, author of acclaimed books on Ken Russell and Lindsay Anderson, explains the importance of Gary Numan on music. With the kind of packed virtuoso prose the likes of which we have rarely seen since the heyday of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, he takes the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a bayou swamp or a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first wolf and harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string," to show that...

A new edition of the first analytical study of the pioneering composer. The historian, Paul Sutton, starts by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string," to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Machine Quartet, four albums that completely re-invigorated rock and roll. "Numan's music added so many new strands of DNA to the gene pool of...