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[ecrea] British Music Video DVD Boxset release

Tue Nov 14 15:56:45 GMT 2017






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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