This is the first in-depth look at movies that riff on tropes associated with Bruce Lee and that sometimes transformed this actor into a mythical superman.
The period with the greatest cluster of Brucesploitaton productions lasted less than a decade from the mid-seventies to the early-eighties, but the genre spluttered on into the twenty-first century, and although it didn't exist as a category before Bruce Lee's death, there are several films...
This is the first in-depth look at movies that riff on tropes associated with Bruce Lee and that sometimes transformed this actor into a mythical superman.
The period with the greatest cluster of Brucesploitaton productions lasted less than a decade from the mid-seventies to the early-eighties, but the genre spluttered on into the twenty-first century, and although it didn't exist as a category before Bruce Lee's death, there are several films...
This is the story of Ray 'The Cat' Jones who wanted to become middleweight boxing champion of the world but eventually made his mark as the greatest cat burglar of all time. He is a legend thanks to his headline grabbing escape from London's Pentonville Prison in 1958, as well as endless audacious thefts. Ray is a teetotal, fitness obsessed, working-class Welshman whose boxing ambitions are thwarted after corrupt cops fit him up for a crime he...
This is the story of Ray 'The Cat' Jones who wanted to become middleweight boxing champion of the world but eventually made his mark as the greatest cat burglar of all time. He is a legend thanks to his headline grabbing escape from London's Pentonville Prison in 1958, as well as endless audacious thefts. Ray is a teetotal, fitness obsessed, working-class Welshman whose boxing ambitions are thwarted after corrupt cops fit him up for a crime he...
WARNING!
You are about to enter the City of London, the most evil and corrupt place on the planet!
On the border between the City's Cripplegate ward and south Islington's Bone Hill district stands Clarendon Court aka The Denizen - an elite and newly built luxury apartment block of 99 flats marketed to property investors.
Exclusive? Yes
Reassuringly expensive? Yes
Safe? Undoubtedly not!
There were stories, just rumours, about what went on t...
Sensitive Skin #13 features writing by Stewart Home, Peter Blauner, Hal Sirowitz, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Erik Noonan, Robert C. Hardin, D. James Smith, Carl Watson, Matt McClaren, Christopher Romero, Max Blagg, B. Kold, Hilary Holladay, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm and Patrick O'Neil, with art by David de Biasio, Justin Clifford Rhody, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, Samoa and more.
Charlie Templeton, his wife Mandy, and student mistress Mary-Jane Millford survived the London terrorist bombings of 7/7, but history has yet to be made. To save the future of western civilization, Charlie, a schizoid cultural studies lecturer with a penchant for horror films and necrophilia, must fight the zombies of university bureaucracy and summon the will to become the last in a long line of mad prophets announcing the end of art.
La storia dei movimenti artistico-politici del Novecento è ricca di manifesti anarchici e costellata di personaggi affascinanti e turbolenti, spesso riconducibili - e non solo idealmente - alle attività dei gruppi politici ultraradicali. Con un linguaggio immediato e irriverente, Stewart Home rintraccia il fil rouge che lega insieme le diverse avanguardie posteriori al surrealismo, fornendo un resoconto dai colori vivi delle vicende di Cobra, ...
Stewart Home is the internationally-acclaimed author of Red London, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (Canongate, 2002), Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton (Do-Not Press, 2004) and Tainted Love (Virgin Books, 2005), among others. His new book, Memphis Underground, documents his obsessions with Soul music and the theory and practice of art while marking another step up in his progress as one of the country's most fascinating avant-garde w...
Penny-Ante is proud to announce a deluxe reissue of Stewart Home's classic political satire Defiant Pose, newly introduced by McKenzie Wark with an afterword by Home. Originally published in 1991, this brutal "assault on culture" remains relevant in today's torrid times. Employing pastiche, detournement and outright plagiarism, Richard Allen's skinhead novels get a perverse makeover, going head to head with Hegel, Hobbes, and the heretical tra...
This is where the novel has a nervous breakdown. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen, Scotland, and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region. The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas.This is a book about the body in whic...
