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Ben Thompson

    Gilliamesque
    Ban This Filth!
    The Story of the Streets
    Ways of Hearing
    Badass
    • Gilliamesque

      • 308 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      Mitbegründer von Monty Python und legendärer Kinovisionär - Terry Gilliam öffnet seine Archive Zum ersten Mal erzählt der Regisseur von Kinoklassikern wie Time Bandits , Brazil , 12 Monkeys oder Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – nicht zu vergessen seine Arbeiten für Monty Python – seine Geschichte und sein bisheriges Leben. Voller bislang unveröffentlichter Illustrationen, Fotographien und Skizzen verbindet Gilliamesque das visuelle und verbale Erlebnis mit ureigenem Witz und faszinierenden Enthüllungen. Ausstattung: durchgehend farbig illustriert

      Gilliamesque2017
      4,4
    • The Story of the Streets

      • 384 Seiten
      • 14 Lesestunden

      Mike Skinner - the creative force behind The Streets - has won worldwide acclaim for fusing home-grown hip-hop with the proud British tradition of observational songwriting. In this book Mike shares personal details of his upbringing in Birmingham, as well as discussing life in the showbiz fast lane.

      The Story of the Streets2013
    • Ban This Filth!

      Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive

      • 406 Seiten
      • 15 Lesestunden

      The launch of Mary Whitehouse's 'Clean Up TV' campaign (at Birmingham Town Hall in 1964) made this devoutly Christian Shropshire school-teacher a media star overnight. Over the next 37 years, her name became a byword for censoriousness. All the hundreds of letters this redoubtable campaigner sent, and most of the many thousands she subsequently received, were preserved in the archives of her National Viewers and Listeners Association. Sifting through this unique compendium of outrage and affront, Ben Thompson uncovers a startling new perspective on Mary Whitehouse's stand against a tsunami of swearing and sexual license. Far from the last of a dying breed, might she actually have been the harbinger - if not quite the agent - of a change in the tide of cultural history?

      Ban This Filth!2012
    • Badass

      A Relentless Onslaught of the Toughest Warlords, Vikings, Samurai, Pirates, Gunfighters, and Military Commanders to Ev

      • 352 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      Focusing on legendary warriors, this collection highlights history's most formidable figures who donned chainmail and charged into combat. Each entry showcases their remarkable feats, bravery, and the impact they had on their respective eras, celebrating the relentless spirit and valor of these iconic fighters.

      Badass2009
      4,0
    • Ways of Hearing

      • 352 Seiten
      • 13 Lesestunden

      "Someone once said that 'pop music is an argument that anyone can join in'. Ways of Hearing turns that argument into a riotous bar-room brawl, as a frontier town of unruly pop pioneers (from Lee 'Scratch' Perry to Lemmy from Motorhead, from Captain Beefheart to The Chemical Brothers to Sir Cliff Richard) punch it out in a gleeful free-for-all." "Tapping into pop's imaginary world at its intersections with film, TV and literature, Ben Thompson zeroes in on music's power to transform - both those who make it and those who listen to it. Part pop hall of fame, part self-help manual, and part visionary manifesto, Ways of Hearing cuts through the waxy build-up of conventional wisdom and gains direct access to the soul's inner ear."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

      Ways of Hearing2001
      2,8