Kevin M. Flanagan holds an M.A. in English/Film Studies from North Carolina State University and is a Ph.D. candidate in Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is editor of The Modest Proposal, an online journal of book reviews.
This is a worthy study of a director who moved too far toward the
margins to endure.... Recommended.
*CHOICE, May 2010*
Tom Wallis's essay on Tommy (1975) finds that both Russell and
Townshend wish to 'transcend and parody' their respective genres,
and treats the film in question with a sensitivity rare in writing
on rock music which often oscillates between poles of enthusiastic
fandom and Adornite misanthropy....In this book, Russell emerges,
variously, as a profoundly aesthetic maker of lush costume drama, a
gore maestro, pop artist, dogged amateur and commentator on the
vagaries of Thatcherism....To say that a 'definitive' Russel does
not emerge from this book of essays is far from a criticism— it is
a testament to one of Britain's most visionary, contrary and
multi-faceted film-makers.
*Journal Of British Cinema and Television*
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