Looking For A New England: Action, Time, Vision – Music, Film and TV 1975-1986

Simon Matthews

Softcover | 15.24 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 320 pp

Oldcastle Books | 2021 | 9780857304117

What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England is a carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins ouevre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream.

The book describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.