Off key : when film and music won't work together by Dickinson, Kay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The status and the potential of film-music that "doesn't work" -- The motion picture you're about to see is a story of music : the migration of cinema into rock 'n' roll -- It's not only trivial, It's bad, vulgar : Ken Russell's composer biopics and the uneasy realignment of work and culture -- Troubling synthesis : the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of "video nasties" -- Pop stars who "can't act" and the limits of celebrity "flexibility" -- The problems of conclusion.…”
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Off key : when film and music won't work together by Dickinson, Kay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The status and the potential of film-music that "doesn't work" -- The motion picture you're about to see is a story of music : the migration of cinema into rock 'n' roll -- It's not only trivial, It's bad, vulgar : Ken Russell's composer biopics and the uneasy realignment of work and culture -- Troubling synthesis : the horrific sights and incompatible sounds of "video nasties" -- Pop stars who "can't act" and the limits of celebrity "flexibility" -- The problems of conclusion.…”
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Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain. by Petley, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Appendix: The DPP List of 'Video Nasties'Bibliography; Index.…”
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Labour and the left in the 1980s

Table of Contents: “…The case of 'Old Labour', 1979-94; 2 Leading the Labour Party in the 1980s; 3 Labour's liberalism: gay rights and video nasties; 4 Responsible capitalism: Labour's industrial policy and the idea of a National Investment Bank during the long 1980s; PART II The British left in a global context; 5 Neil Kinnock's perestroika: Labour and the Soviet influence…”
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New blood : critical approaches to contemporary horror

Table of Contents: “…The making and marketing of Takashi Miike's horror reputation / Joe Hickinbottom -- Bloody muscles on VHS: when Asia extreme met the video nasties / Jonathan Wroot -- Streaming Netflix original horror: Black Mirror, Stranger Things and datafied TV horror / Matt Hills -- The digital gothic and the mainstream horror genre: uncanny vernacular creativity and adaptation / Jessica Balanzategui -- Nazi horror, reanimated: rethinking subgenres and cycles / Abigail Whittall -- Digital witness: found footage and desktop horror as post-cinematic experience / Lindsay Hallam -- Revisiting the female monster: sex and monstrosity in contemporary body horror / Eddie Falvey -- The kids are alt-right: hardcore punk, subcultural violence and contemporary American politics in Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room / Thomas Joseph Watson -- Twenty-first-century Euro-snuff: a Serbian film for the family / Neil Jackson…”
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Merchants of menace : the business of horror cinema

Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- Bids for distinction: the critical-industrial function of the horror auteur / Joe Tompkins -- Low budgets, no budgets, and digital-video nasties: recent British horror and informal distribution / Johnny Walker -- Hammer 2.0: legacy, modernization, and hammer horror as a heritage brand / Matt Hills.…”
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