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Overview"In the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927–2011) quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema. His work, like the man himself, was regarded as flamboyant, excessive, and unrestrained. Inheriting and yet subverting the venerable mantle of British documentary, Russell did not fit comfortably in the context of a national cinema dominated by sober realism. His distinct style combined realism with fictional devices, often in audacious ways, to create the biographical """"docudrama."""" In Ken Russell: Interviews, the filmmaker discusses his colorful life and career, from his youth fascinated by movies to his early work in television through his feature films and his retreat to home movies. Russell first drew notice in the early 1960s for a series of unorthodox biographical films about artists and composers. In these early television films, Russell was already exhibiting an unconventional approach to biography that combined historical fact, aesthetic interpretation, and outlandish personal vision. After the critical and commercial success of his adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, Russell continued to explore the related themes of art, sexuality, and music in The Music Lovers, The Boy Friend, Mahler, Tommy, and Lisztomania. His career foundered after Valentino, however, and he found it increasingly difficult to get funding. Toward the end of his career, Russell was restricted to making movies with his own equipment, using family and friends as actors, with virtually no budget. Throughout the ups and downs of his career, Russell alternately embraced and resented his characterization as an enfant terrible. While Russell’s comments are often meant to provoke and shock, he is articulate when discussing his films, his approach to cinema, music and composers, and, of course, his critics." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Barry Keith GrantPublisher: University Press of Mississippi Imprint: University Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781496851840ISBN 10: 1496851846 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 August 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chronology Filmography Shock Treatment Gordon Gow / 1970 An Interview with Ken Russell Gene D. Phillips / 1970 Interview with Ken Russell Max Tessier / 1971 Conversation with Ken Russell Terry Curtis Fox / 1973 Ken Russell Faces the Music Patrick McGilligan and Janet Maslin / 1974 André Previn Meets Ken Russell André Previn / 1974 Fact, Fantasy, and the Films of Ken Russell Gene D. Phillips / 1976 The Gospel aAccording to Russell Marjorie Bilbow / 1976 With Ken Russell on the Set of Valentino Herb A. Lightman / 1977 Ken Russell: An Interview Ric Gentry / 1981 Ken Russell: Looking into Madness Graham Fuller / 1987 Images of Reality Anthony Clare / 1988 Ken Russell’s Best Laid Planaria: Wormomania Karen Jaehne / 1988 Next of Ken Graham Fuller / 1989 Morning, Mr. Grumpy! Lola Borg / 1989 The Impossible Romantic Lynn Barber / 1991 Ken Russell: The Victorian Dreamer George Hickenlooper / 1991 God and Monsters Sally Vincent / 1999 Savage Messiah: An Interview with Ken Russell Nik Huggins / 2002 Old Devil: Stephen Armstrong Finds Ken Russell Back among His Muses Stephen Armstrong / 2005 Elgar’s Ear: A Conversation with Ken Russell John C. Tibbetts / 2005 Ken Russell Interview: The Last Fires of Film’s Old Devil Stuart Jeffries / 2011 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBarry Keith Grant is emeritus professor of film studies and popular culture at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman; The Film Studies Dictionary; The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film; Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video; Film Genre Reader; and Fritz Lang: Interviews, published by University Press of Mississippi. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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