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The Bodies Beneath (Paperback)
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The Bodies Beneath (Paperback)
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Loot Price R424
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From occult rites in soft porn discos to Sooty the TV puppet's
amphetamine problem, a feast of curiosities from British film and
TV. The past, they say, is another country, but as seen through the
lens of British film and television, it is a deeply strange and
unfamiliar land. From occult rites in soft porn discos to Sooty the
TV puppet's amphetamine problem, from Old Mother Riley, and Vampire
Hunter to Vincent Price's heart-attack-inducing cookery program, in
this book veteran curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt have delved
deep into the archives of the British Film Institute to serve up a
feast of curiosities that will tempt the palate of even the most
jaded cinephile. Each chapter considers a key aspect of British
life as seen through the psychotronic lens of pop culture. Do All
the Right Noises and Under the Doctor tell us more about attitudes
to marriage and sexuality than a sociological survey? Can American
musicologist Alan Lomax capture a truer image of the weird rites of
Cornish folk culture than a native Cornishman? Why was Peter
Watkins's The War Game banned from TV screens? These crucial
questions, and many more, will be answered, and awkward truths
told, by our highly informed, erudite and amusing guides to this
cultural hinterland.
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