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The Flipside of British Film &amp; Television</span></b></span>
by William Fowler and Vic Pratt
Foreword by Nicolas Winding Refn
Paperback
£15.99
148mm x 210mm
400pp
ISBN: 9781907222726

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<b>“The missing links of british cinema...glorious...punk rock” - Nicolas Winding Refn</b>
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<strong>JOIN US ON THE FLIPSIDE...</strong>

<em>Some cinematic paths lie neat and well-tended, others are ominously overgrown and ignored. Dig down deep to find the bodies beneath...</em>

Occult rites are staged in hippie strip clubs; music hall dame Old Mother Riley haunts a vampiric Bela Lugosi; TV puppet Sooty doles out intoxicating pharmaceuticals; velvet-voiced Vincent Price presents a full-fat cookery programme...

Veteran film curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt crack open the caskets of forgotten or neglected British films and telly to serve up a feast of curiosities to tempt the palate of even the most jaded cinephile. Their unflinching, all- embracing investigative gaze is as likely to reassess an established classic as it is to focus on cobweb-covered delights like pioneering 1930s female film director Mary Field’s beautifully bizarre <i>The Mystery of Marriage</i>, the much- maligned <i>Doctor Who </i>epic ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’, underground offerings like Anna Ambrose’s experimental art piece <i>Phoelix </i>and Andy Milligan’s bawdy bloodbath <i>The Body Beneath</i>.

All is grist to this monstrous mill, as the authors tamper with outmoded video formats and meddle with magenta-bias safety film in their mission to finger- paint an entirely unexpected, highly irreverent and thoroughly personal picture of film and television culture in twentieth-century Britain.

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<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>

William Fowler and Vic Pratt are both film archivists, writers, and curators, and have programmed numerous cinema screenings at venues internationally. In 2006, they co-founded The Flipside initiative at the British Film Institute. Every month for seven years, they presented weird and wonderful, offbeat, unseen and outrageous film and television, welcoming a host of acting and directorial talent.

Will and Vic write regularly for many different film publications and anthologies, and contribute programme notes for screenings, DVD and Blu- Ray releases including the BFI Flipside label.

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