Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General. He died aged 25 in 1969, between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British film industry - an apt candidate to represent all that could have been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost auteur of British cinema and traces his conception of film back to his childhood and formative experiences. Benjamin Halligan examines Reeves's films...
Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create ...
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this essential genre of film-making. The book will be of interest to academics and students as well as film and documentary-makers, musicians and music promoters, and film and music enthusiasts.
The writers in this volume argue that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural artefact in documenting stars and icons, and musicians and their times particularly for those figures whose fame was achieved posthumously. The...
The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate thi...
Benjamin Halligan Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs Robert Edgar
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.
This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day...
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of conc...
Benjamin Halligan Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs Robert Edgar
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, experience, technology and star - the art form of the 21st century.
This volume offers interviews with key designers, discussions of the practicalities of mounting arena concerts, mixing and performing live to a mass audience, recollections of the giants of late twentieth century music in performance, and critiques of latter-day...
The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might said to be - in its melding of conc...
