ReFocus: The Films of Ken Russell / / ed. by Matthew Melia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Crittenden, Roger,; Davies, Paul,; Evans, Jade,; Farmer, Richard,; Fullerton, Kevin,; George, Jo,; Hoyle, Brian,; Laity, K. A.,; Langhorst, Caroline,; Melia, Matthew,; Omori, Sawako,; Powell, Adam,; Rose, Bernard,; Russell, Elize,; Stevenson, N. J.,; Đedović, Mateja,
• HerausgeberIn: Melia, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 35 B/W illustrations 35 B&W images

Showcases the most contemporary scholarly and archival research into Ken Russell’s career and workContains writing and research from a range of new and emerging scholars of Russell’s workIncludes reflections and discussion from those who knew and worked with Russell: his wife Elize Russell and editor Roger CrittendenForeword by Russell influenced film director Bernard RoseKen 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1 Contextualising Ken Russell -- Chapter 1 Ken Russell: The Boy behind the Man -- Chapter 2 Performed Masculinities: Oliver Reed in Ken Russell’s Films of the ‘Long 1960s’ -- Chapter 3 Ken Russell’s Gothic Modernism -- Part 2 Ken Russell and Television -- Chapter 4 Ken Russell and Television Advertising -- Chapter 5 Quartet: Ken Russell’s Painter Biopics and How they Anticipate the Later Cinematic Work -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 7 Shirley Russell and the Role of The Boy Friend in 1970s Retro -- chapter 8 ‘No Better Director to Learn From’: The Collaboration and Parallel Careers of Ken Russell and Derek Jarman -- Chapter 9 The Hermeneutics of Noise: The Sounds of Salvation in Ken Russell’s Tommy -- Chapter 10 Mythologising Valentino: Stardom, Biography and Performance in Ken Russell’s Valentino -- Part 4 Transgression and the Russell Legacy -- Chapter 11 An Extraordinary Parallel: Ken Russell and Dennis Potter Side by Side -- Chapter 12 Ken Russell and the Sexual Dimension of the Outsider Artist: An Exploration of Elgar: The Erotic Variations and Delius: A Moment with Venus -- Chapter 13 A Short History of Ken Russell’s Films in Japan -- Chapter 14 Nicolas Winding Refn and the Ken Russell Style -- Part 5 A Word from the Editor . . . -- Chapter 15 Ken Russell’s Song of Summer: The Virtue of Restraint -- Index