After punk; pop culture wanted to dazzle again. Fashion and style were the means and the New Romantics took them to the limit. But the New Romantic movement was more than just a reaction against the anti-glamour of punkhellip;and the music was only part of the story.The first in-depth book about British Poprsquo;s most flamboyant movement.The clubs and cabarets; the clothes; the glitter; the make-up; the hair; the fashion; the attitude and the style all made up The Look ndash; and the Look was everything.The New Romantics explores the varied roots of the movement; using interviews with the stars and tracing a range of influences from David Bowie to the movie Cabaret and the Berlin of the 1930s. Includes interviews with Martin Kemp; Boy George and Steve Strange.
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful. A short intro to Blade Runner...By Michael ValdivielsoA reprint (and I think rewrite) of the 2008 edition; this is a detailed account of the making of; and final movie; Blade Runner and its history after release. Many of the stories are well known and; to be honest; at just over a hundred pages there seems to be very little here that you could not find in a ten minute internet search. Blade Runner is one of those films that developed a cult following well after its release and many facts have become well known. A lot of the book seems to deal with the city and its place in the future; the ethics of androids; and the landscape of science fiction in the 20th century. Which; while interesting; is not THAT interesting to a person who is already well versed in such things. This is for a person who is totally new to the film or sci-fi films in general. Otherwise I would give it a pass.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great Book and Service!By Nick OakesVery good product; helped me finish a term paper; so Im grateful that it came in just a day. I definitely recommend this!5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. The finest book yet written about the meaning - as opposed to the making - of BLADE RUNNERBy Robert MooreI got this book shortly after it came out in the previous edition and have read it a total of three times. How anyone could give this outstanding book only two stars is mindboggling. This is not merely a book about BLADE RUNNER; but about what it and similar films tell us about what it means to be human under Late Capitalism. It stretches the themes of the film to cover how the modern world attempts to remake us as consumers; as artifacts; as "made" (or "re-made") things; how modern society is so constructed by the tendency to objectify everything that it transforms us from flesh and blood people to culturally produced artifacts. These themes were; of course; at the heart of Philip K. Dicks novel and were some of his ongoing concerns; but few critics have written about them so eloquently as Bukatman. As an example; read this book and then read the book in the same series on THE MATRIX; which deals with similar themes. Where Bukatmans volume bristles with insight and intelligent; that other book is rather dense and lacking in insight. This is strange; given that THE MATRIX is essentially a remake in fictionalized form of Guy Debords THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (as an experiment; either read Debords Marxist classic; substituting "Matrix" each time Debord writes "Spectacle;" or use "Spectacle" when the film uses the word "Matrix" - the meaning is precisely the same in each instance; plus the then-brothers dropped explicit hints as to how to situate their film by putting things like Baudrillards SIMULATION AND SIMULACRA in it as a hollowed out volume in which Neo keeps his software).As superb as this book is; it pales compared to Bukatmans TERMINAL IDENTITY; which is perhaps the premiere study of artificially created consciousness in contemporary film and literature. It is perhaps the most widely cited book on the subject in the field of posthuman studies today; with the lone exception of Donna Haraways Cyborg Manifesto; which is; of course; an essay.Sammons FUTURE NOIR is the premiere book on the making of the film; but the previous reviewer is wrong in suggesting that this was the point of Bukatmans book. He is focused instead on the meaning of the film. He sketches out a bit about the making of the film; in keeping with the required format of other films in the BFI Film Classics series; but that is the least interesting part of the book. To ignore the heart of the book is simply irresponsible criticism.
