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Post by doug61 on Mar 10, 2022 13:43:20 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 10, 2022 13:45:45 GMT
Agreed Doug Looks v interesting Cover's great too  |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 12, 2022 19:01:47 GMT
A bit more about the writer... Peter Stanfield is Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Kent. He has a truant eye for pulp culture, a fine collection of vintage denim jackets and is indisputably the last of the MacMahonists. He has written two monographs on the Western, with a third on postwar dirty Westerns under development. Recent publications include Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson (2011), which takes a long look at our fascination with a lowbrow aesthetic, and The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema (2015) that examines cycles of sensational movies produced to capitalise on current events, moral panics and popular fads. His latest film monograph, Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972, further develops ideas on film cycles and pulp cinema. Popular music’s interaction with film is a key theme in all of his outputs, whether that is a singing cowboy’s blue yodel, the siren call of a torch singer, the calypso beat of a juvenile delinquent pic, or the greasy chug n’ churn of an outlaw biker movie soundtrack. His most recent book is about the mighty Who – A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk – published by Reaktion in the Spring of 2021. www.peterstanfield.com/about |
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Post by Billy Idle on Mar 13, 2022 13:23:22 GMT
A bit more about the writer... Peter Stanfield is Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Kent. He has a truant eye for pulp culture, a fine collection of vintage denim jackets and is indisputably the last of the MacMahonists. He has written two monographs on the Western, with a third on postwar dirty Westerns under development. Recent publications include Maximum Movies—Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson (2011), which takes a long look at our fascination with a lowbrow aesthetic, and The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema (2015) that examines cycles of sensational movies produced to capitalise on current events, moral panics and popular fads. His latest film monograph, Hoodlum Movies: Seriality and the Outlaw Biker Film Cycle, 1966-1972, further develops ideas on film cycles and pulp cinema. Popular music’s interaction with film is a key theme in all of his outputs, whether that is a singing cowboy’s blue yodel, the siren call of a torch singer, the calypso beat of a juvenile delinquent pic, or the greasy chug n’ churn of an outlaw biker movie soundtrack. His most recent book is about the mighty Who – A Band with Built-in Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk – published by Reaktion in the Spring of 2021. www.peterstanfield.com/aboutBit of a boffin then , but doesn't mean it wont be worth reading though . |
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Post by doug61 on Mar 13, 2022 15:41:50 GMT
Amazon said they were delivering a copy to me yesterday but it didn't turn up, now promising today. Personally I'm not sure it's even been released yet.
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Post by Billy Idle on Mar 15, 2022 9:25:54 GMT
Amazon said they were delivering a copy to me yesterday but it didn't turn up, now promising today. Personally I'm not sure it's even been released yet. did it turn up yet doug ? what are your first impressions ? |
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Post by doug61 on Mar 15, 2022 12:14:30 GMT
Amazon said they were delivering a copy to me yesterday but it didn't turn up, now promising today. Personally I'm not sure it's even been released yet. did it turn up yet doug ? what are your first impressions ? Yep got it now. It is smaller than I thought I expected an Oversized book but is normal book size so not great photographically brilliant, but lookss like it will be an interesting read after a quick glance. Only trouble is I constantly have a pile of books it takes me forever to get to. Got at least a dozen in front of it in the queue if not more. I seem to buy the bloody things quicker than I read them. Going through a very good collection of Mick Farren's career writings at the moment.  |
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