Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986

Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986

Simon Matthews
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Author:  Simon Matthews
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  256
Publisher:  Oldcastle Books Ltd
Year:  2021
ISBN:  9780857304117

Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners.

A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream. The sequel to Psychedelic Celluloid, it describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.

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