ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-7766-6 (ISBN)

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Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell’s career and work

Ken Russell was among the most provocative, creative, original and important directors in British film and television history but his career and legacy have long suffered under the media clichés of ‘Madman’ or ‘Enfant Terrible’ of British cinema – nicknames which have tended to delegitimise his status and pioneering role in post-war film and television culture. This scholarly edited collection refuses these terms and aims to not only reflect and further current critical research into Russell’s work but to see Russell as the Renaissance man of British cinema. It brings together the work of new and established scholars as well as the reflections of those who knew and worked with Russell. ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell offers new perspectives across the breadth of Russell’s extensive career in television, film and other mediums, and seeks to better understand not only his reception, but the importance of collaboration to his practice, and the legacy of the man himself.

Matthew Melia is a Senior Lecturer in Literature, Film and Media at Kingston University, UK. His research focuses on both the work of Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He is particularly interested in Russell’s unmade and abandoned projects. He is co-editor of The Jaws Book (2020) as well as co-editor and editor of the forthcoming books,  Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange (2022) and The Jurassic Park Book: 30 years of Spielberg’s Dinosaurs (2023). He has contributed to a variety of publications including a chapter on Russell’s umade BBC films for Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Contexts of Unmade Films (2021) as well the The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) and Reframing Cult Westerns (2020). In 2017 he convened the conference Ken Russell: Perspectives, Reception and Legacy (Kingston University) and in 2018 he co-convened the conference A Clockwork Symposium: A Clockwork Orange – New Perspectives.

List of Figures

Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements

Foreword by Bernard Rose

Introduction

Part 1. Contextualising Ken Russell

1. Ken Russell: The Boy Behind The Man - Elize Russell

2. Performed Masculinities: Oliver Reed in Ken Russell’s Films of the ‘Long 1960s’ - Caroline Langhorst

3. Ken Russell’s Gothic Modernism - Matthew Melia

Part 2. Ken Russell and Television

4. Ken Russell and Television Advertising - Richard Farmer

5. Quartet: Ken Russell’s Painter Biopics and how they Anticipate the Later Cinematic Work - Paul Davies

6. Ken Russell and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - Jo George

Part 3. Design, Staging and Stardom

7. Shirley Russell and The Role of The Boyfriend in 1970s Retro - NJ Stevenson

8. "There was no better director to learn from": Ken Russell’s Collaboration with Derek Jarman - Brian Hoyle-George

9. The Hermeneutics of Noise: The Sounds of Salvation in Ken Russell’s Tommy - K.A. Laity

10. Mythologising Valentino: Stardom, Biography and Performance in Ken Russell’s Valentino - Jade Evans

Part 4. Transgression and the Russell Legacy

11. The Extraordinary Parallel – Ken Russell & Dennis Potter Side by Side - Mateja Đedović

12. Ken Russell and the sexual dimension of the outsider artist: an exploration of Elgar: The Erotic Variations　and Delius: A Moment with Venus - Kevin Fullerton

13. The Short History of Ken Russell Films in Japan - Sawako Omori

14. Nicolas Winding Refn and the Russell Style - Adam Powell

Part 5: A word from the editor...

15. Ken Russell’s Song of Summer and the Virtue of Restraint - Roger Crittenden

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	ReFocus: The International Directors Series
Zusatzinfo	35 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-4744-7766-6 / 1474477666
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-7766-6 / 9781474477666
Zustand	Neuware