Ken Russell by Barry Keith Grant - 9781496851840

Ken RussellInterviews\nAuthor(s): Barry Keith Grant\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496851840, 978-1496851840\nSynopsis\nIn the 1970s, British filmmaker Ken Russell [tel] quickly gained a reputation as the enfant terrible of British cinema. His work, like the man himself, was regarded as flamboyant, excessive, and unrestrained. Inheriting and yet subverting the venerable mantle of British documentary, Russell did not fit comfortably in the context of a national cinema dominated by sober realism. His distinct style combined realism with fictional devices, often in audacious ways, to create the biographical \""\""docudrama.\""\"" In Ken Russell: Interviews, the filmmaker discusses his colorful life and career, from his youth fascinated by movies to his early work in television through his feature films and his retreat to home movies.\n\nRussell first drew notice in the early 1960s for a ser.