Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Foreword

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-20

Part 1 - Contextualising Ken Russell

pp 21-22

1 - Ken Russell: The Boy behind the Man

pp 23-47

2 - Performed Masculinities: Oliver Reed in Ken Russell’s Films of the ‘Long 1960s’

pp 48-68

3 - Ken Russell’s Gothic Modernism

pp 69-92

Part 2 - Ken Russell and Television

pp 93-94

4 - Ken Russell and Television Advertising

pp 95-108

5 - Quartet: Ken Russell’s Painter Biopics and How they Anticipate the Later Cinematic Work

pp 109-124

6 - ‘An Authentic Part of the History of European Painting’: Ken Russell’s Early Engagement with the Pre-Raphaelites

pp 125-142

Part 3 - Design, Staging and Stardom

pp 143-144

7 - Shirley Russell and the Role of The Boy Friend in 1970s Retro

pp 145-161

8 - ‘No Better Director to Learn From’: The Collaboration and Parallel Careers of Ken Russell and Derek Jarman

pp 162-179

9 - The Hermeneutics of Noise: The Sounds of Salvation in Ken Russell’s Tommy

pp 180-194

10 - Mythologising Valentino: Stardom, Biography and Performance in Ken Russell’s Valentino

pp 195-210

Part 4 - Transgression and the Russell Legacy

pp 211-212

11 - An Extraordinary Parallel: Ken Russell and Dennis Potter Side by Side

pp 213-227

12 - Ken Russell and the Sexual Dimension of the Outsider Artist: An Exploration of Elgar: The Erotic Variations and Delius: A Moment with Venus

pp 228-241

13 - A Short History of Ken Russell’s Films in Japan

pp 242-259

14 - Nicolas Winding Refn and the Ken Russell Style

pp 260-278

Part 5 - A Word from the Editor ...

pp 279-280

15 - Ken Russell’s Song of Summer: The Virtue of Restraint

pp 281-297

Index

pp 298-304