Street date launch for OFFBEAT, Revised and Updated Edition.
For years there has been consensus about the merits of Britain’s ‘cult films’ — Peeping Tom, Witchfinder General, The Italian Job — but what of The Mark, Unearthly Stranger, The Strange Affair and The Squeeze? Revisionist critics wax lyrical over Get Carter and The Wicker Man, but what of Sitting Target, Quest for Love and The Black Panther?
OFFBEAT redresses this imbalance by exploring Britain’s obscurities, curiosities and forgotten gems — from the buoyant leap in film production in the late fifties to the dying days of popular domestic cinema in the early eighties.
Featuring essays, interviews and in-depth reviews, OFFBEAT provides an exhaustive, enlightening and entertaining guide through a host of neglected cinematic trends and episodes, including:
The last great British B-movies
‘Anti-swinging sixties’ films
Sexploitation — from Yellow Teddy Bears to Emmanuelle in Soho
The British rock ‘n roll movie
CIA-funded British cartoons
Asylums in British cinema
The Children’s Film Foundation
The demise of the short as supporting feature
Val Guest, Sidney Hayers and the forgotten journeyman of British film
Swashbucklers, crime thrillers and other non-horror Hammers
Now updated with more than 150 pages of new reviews and essays, featuring:
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