Phallic Frenzy : Ken Russell and His Films.
Title:
Phallic Frenzy : Ken Russell and His Films.
Author:
Lanza, Joseph.
ISBN:
9781569764817
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Pinocchio's Pecker -- 2 The Lair of the Black Mamba -- 3 The Lost Lamour -- 4 Music for a Mental Breakdown -- 5 Catholic Space Cadets -- 6 Pathographer's Progress -- 7 Art with a Capital T -- 8 Heaven, Hell, and a Waterfall -- 9 Cold Days in Purgatory -- 10 Blowing Bubbles -- 11 Songs of Superman -- 12 A Bundle of Tortured Nerves -- 13 Sacrilegious Bitch! The Devils: Part One -- 14 Sanctimonious Whores! The Devils: Part Two -- 15 Naughty, Bawdy Bodies -- 16 The Coffin and the Codpiece -- 17 Mahler Sieg Heil! -- 18 A Sadomasochistic Sesame Street -- 19 Orpheus Extending -- 20 Valentino and His Double -- 21 Waiting for Dracula -- 22 Faust Freaks -- 23 Operatic Punks -- 24 The Deco Dildo -- 25 Prometheus Ungagged -- 26 Salome's Salami -- 27 The Serpent in the Rainbow -- 28 Moll Flounders -- 29 From White Worms to Blue Balls -- 30 The Loch Ness Trickster -- Source Notes -- Works of Ken Russell -- Index.
Abstract:
A biography of director Ken Russell that details the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmmakeron and off the set. Best known for the acclaimed movies Altered States, The Devils, Gothic, The Music Lovers, Tommy, and Women in Love, Russell redefined cinema in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, working with magnetic actors like Jack Nicholson, Michael Caine, Ann-Margret, William Hurt, Gabriel Byrne, and Vanessa Redgrave. Moments of Russell's career are highlighted in this intimate biography, including how creative differences between Russell and producer Robert Stigwood stopped production of a movie version of Evita, how he creatively staged the love duet between Faust and Helen over a bowl of pasta in the opera Mephistopheles, and how Alan Bates and Oliver Reed compared their penis size for the nude wrestling scene in Women in Love.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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