Nick Gilbert

On Brandon Hill: Popular Culture in Bristol since World War Two (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first ever comprehensive history of post-war Bristolian culture, On Brandon Hill spans the years 1945 to 2020 and covers all the major art forms for which the West Country city is famous music, TV, animation, street art as well as its less celebrated contributions to film, theatre, literature, fine art etc. The major players - Aardman, Banksy, Massive Attack, the Arnolfini, Adge Cutler, Angela Carter, Cary Grant, Peter Nichols, Richard Long, The Young Ones, Little Britain are all present and correct. At the same time, On Brandon Hill shows how "ordinary" Bristolians have not only enjoyed but actively contributed to the local arts scene over a period of seven and a half decades. Weaving family history, personal memory and a gurt big dollop of West Country humour into a gigantic cultural tapestry, the book creates what Ben Slater, editor of 90s Bristol arts magazine Entropy, describes as "a great rush of stories-within-stories, the non-fiction One Hundred Years of Solitude of the Bristol literary, filmic and musical under/overgrounds...."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nick Gilbert
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005696825
• Artikelnr.: 70400858

Autorenporträt

I was born in Bristol in 1964. I have been, at various times, a film student (Polytechnic of Central London, Bristol University and National Film School) actor, DJ, journalist, book reviewer, assistant editor on countless documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 and, since the turn of the millennium, a lecturer and teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages in London (Morley College and Westminster University).