Books by Benjamin Halligan

Hotbeds of Licentiousness is the first substantial critical engagement with British pornography on film across the 1970s, including the "e;Summer of Love,"e; the rise and fall of the Permissive Society, the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, and beyond. By focusing on a series of colorful filmmakers whose work, while omnipresent during the 1970s, now remains critically ignored, author Benjamin Halligan discusses pornography in terms of lifestyle aspirations and opportunities which point to radical changes in British society. In this way, pornography is approached as a crucial optic with which to consider recent cultural and social history.

Mark E Smith remains one of the most divisive and idiosyncratic figures in popular music after a recording career with his band - The Fall - that spans thirty years. This book offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics.

Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took onexploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even VincentPrice to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair:Witchfinder General. -- .