SHEER FILTH Q & A with Chris Cooke talking to David Flint
Thursday 10th April 5.30 to 7pm in T008, Kedleston Road, University of Derby
Fanzines and counter culture in the 80's and 90's. A look at a pre-internet age of anti-censorship fight backs and independent publishing.
David Flint's SHEER FILTH was one of the most controversial and infamous British fanzines of the 1980s and now, thanks to FAB Press, the champions of counter-culture publishing, SHEER FILTH returns in book form.
Flint edited the fanzine creating a home for some of the most influential new writers on transgressive culture, from David Kerekes to David Slater and the fanzine led to HeadPress, Divinity and Sexadelic among others.
Hugely controversial, pro-porn, freedom of expression, and a reaction against the conservatism that came with the Video Nasties era, SHEER FILTH covered everything from the profane to the cult, from Nekromantik to Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, from Bettie Page and Annie Sprinkle and from true crime to HG Lewis.
Flint went on to write the seminal (and now highly sought after) book on British horror cinema, TEN YEARS OF TERROR, with Harvey Fenton at FAB Press. He currently runs the website Strange Things Are Happening and is researching a new book on the history of British Censorship. He will be joined by Chris Cooke, the co-director of Mayhem Film Festival and writer and director of the acclaimed feature One For The Road, to discuss the legacy of censorship and the fanzine.
"Every now and then a book comes along that provides a perfect snapshot of an era... Flint and Fenton are to be congratulated for this wonderful compilation of Sheer Filth. More than just a catalogue of depravity: it’s an important cultural document." STARBURST Jon Towlson
http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/8325-book-review-sheer-filth
"Sheer Filth! was a UK-based ‘zine which appeared, as many similar ‘zines did, in the wake of the Video Nasties débâcle... kicked back against this state-savvy prudishness by championing a hell of a lot of the things deemed unsuitable or otherwise too lowbrow for the masses." BRUTAL AS HELL Keri O'Shea
http://www.brutalashell.com/2014/04/book-review-sheer-filth-edited-by-david-flint/
More on SHEER FILTH
http://www.fabpress.com/sheer-filth-hardcover.html
Kindest regards,
Professor Jason Lee DPhil SFHEA
Head of Film and Media with Creative and Professional Writing
The School of Humanities, Office E712
The University of Derby
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