Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Foreword xv
7. Introduction 1
8. Part 1 Contextualising Ken Russell
9. Chapter 1 Ken Russell: The Boy behind the Man 23
10. Chapter 2 Performed Masculinities: Oliver Reed in Ken Russell’s Films of the ‘Long 1960s’ 48
11. Chapter 3 Ken Russell’s Gothic Modernism 69
12. Part 2 Ken Russell and Television
13. Chapter 4 Ken Russell and Television Advertising 95
14. Chapter 5 Quartet: Ken Russell’s Painter Biopics and How they Anticipate the Later Cinematic Work 109
15. Chapter 6 ‘An Authentic Part of the History of European Painting’: Ken Russell’s Early Engagement with the Pre-Raphaelites 125
16. Part 3 Design, Staging and Stardom
17. Chapter 7 Shirley Russell and the Role of The Boy Friend in 1970s Retro 145
18. chapter 8 ‘No Better Director to Learn From’: The Collaboration and Parallel Careers of Ken Russell and Derek Jarman 162
19. Chapter 9 The Hermeneutics of Noise: The Sounds of Salvation in Ken Russell’s Tommy 180
20. Chapter 10 Mythologising Valentino: Stardom, Biography and Performance in Ken Russell’s Valentino 195
21. Part 4 Transgression and the Russell Legacy
22. Chapter 11 An Extraordinary Parallel: Ken Russell and Dennis Potter Side by Side 213
23. Chapter 12 Ken Russell and the Sexual Dimension of the Outsider Artist: An Exploration of Elgar: The Erotic Variations and Delius: A Moment with Venus 228
24. Chapter 13 A Short History of Ken Russell’s Films in Japan 242
25. Chapter 14 Nicolas Winding Refn and the Ken Russell Style 260
26. Part 5 A Word from the Editor . . .
27. Chapter 15 Ken Russell’s Song of Summer: The Virtue of Restraint 281
28. Index 298