[ecrea] British Music Video DVD Boxset release

We are delighted to announce that/Power to the People: British Music 
Videos 1966-2016, /a newly curated work by Professor Emily Caston, is 
released on Amazon from 4^th December and is available for pre-order 
now:http://amzn.eu/dxyOcUX

This is a special and limited edition DVD Boxset presenting 200 music 
videos produced in Britain between 1966 and 2016. Each video has been 
selected by a panel of over 100 directors, producers, editors, 
colourists and commissioners as a representation of a landmark in 
British music video history - whether by adoption of a new technology, 
distribution platform, music genre, or performance style. Accompanying 
the 6-disc collection is an Introductory Essay by Emily Caston 
explaining the curatorial principles and ambitions of the collection 
which is organised into 6-Discs titled ‘Performance’, ‘Concept’, 
‘Dance’, ‘Stories’, ‘Wit’, and ‘Portraits’, with sub-genres such as ‘Pop 
Will Eat Itself’. The Boxset contains unprecedented list of production 
credits for each of the 200 music videos – giving students for the first 
time the chance to identify the leading filmmakers, VFX companies and 
production companies who made these influential works and who have 
constituted the little-documented music video industry in Britain.

We are thrilled to say that the collection features two new digitally 
re-mastered videos: Flowered Up’s 'Weekender' (1992), said to have 
inspired Danny Boyle’s/Trainspotting/, made possible because WIZ, the 
director, kept the original 35mm print in his attic for 25 years, and a 
digitally re-mastered copy of Manfred Mann’s ‘The Mighty Quinn’ (1968) 
created from a forgotten 16mm print located in the BFI’s archives. It 
includes videos for artists ranging fromThe Who and The Rolling Stones, 
to Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Cure, Eurythmics, The Human League, Joy 
Division, New Order, The Clash, Kate Bush, George Michael, Sade, So 
Solid Crew, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, Orbital, The Aphex Twin, Blur, 
Radiohead, Bjork, Tricky, PJ Harvey, Basement Jaxx, The Chemical 
Brothers, Dizzee Rascal, M.I.A. and FKA Twigs.

The Boxset accompanies Professor Caston’s forthcoming book on British 
Music Videos (Edinburgh University Press), and a new National Collection 
of Landmark British Music Videos held at the BFI National Film Archive – 
all outputs of the AHRC-funded project /Fifty Years of British Music 
Video/ (University of Portsmouth, University of the Arts London and 
University of West London). The collection is being sold with the 
generous support of the BPI, British record labels, artists and managers 
who have invested considerable resources in the production and 
distribution of the work in order to support greater teaching, research 
and appreciation of the craft of music videos.

We have only a limited number of copies to sell at a special price (RRP 
£39.99), so please do encourage your students and librarians to purchase 
while stocks last!


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