Phallic frenzy [electronic resource] : Ken Russell and his films / Joseph Lanza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanza, Joseph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Russell, Ken, 1927-2011.

Russell, Ken.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Chicago Review Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A biography of director Ken Russell that details the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmmaker—on 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.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

"An A Cappella book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-342) and index.

"Works of Ken Russell": p. 343-365.

ISBN:

1-56976-481-6

OCLC:

752305671