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Management number 4719002 Release Date 2025/08/12 List Price $77.35 Model Number 4719002
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The Bodies Beneath (Strange Attractor Press) Paperback
by William Fowler (Author), Vic Pratt (Author)

From occult rites in soft p*** discos to Sooty the TV puppet's amphetamine problem, a feast of curiosities from British film and TV.

The past, they say, is another country, but as seen through the lens of British film and television, it is a deeply strange and unfamiliar land. From occult rites in soft p*** discos to Sooty the TV puppet's amphetamine problem, from Old Mother Riley, and Vampire Hunter to Vincent Price's heart-attack-inducing cookery program, in this book veteran curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt have delved deep into the archives of the British Film Institute to serve up a feast of curiosities that will tempt the palate of even the most jaded cinephile.

Each chapter considers a key aspect of British life as seen through the psychotronic lens of pop culture. Do All the Right Noises and Under the Doctor tell us more about attitudes to marriage and sexuality than a


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