Abstract
No abstract availableThis review essay was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 3 (2013), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press.
Highlights
In 2008 Liz Aggiss directed a film entitled Diva, which suggested that her diva persona was being laid to rest in funereal scenes
The seafront seems haunted by ghosts of films gone past, from the expressionist 1930s gangsterism of Brighton Rock,4 to Quadrophenia’s love song, to Mod culture5 and Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa,6 where on Brighton Pier Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson play out a remarkable scene of emotional decimation as the pier carouses around them
In Beach Party Animal, Aggiss and Murray consider English seafront culture in scenes that are not epic or perhaps even filmic but most definitely screenic; the Brighton seafront becomes a kind of slightly trashy holodeck
Summary
In 2008 Liz Aggiss directed a film entitled Diva, which suggested that her diva persona was being laid to rest in funereal scenes. The seafront seems haunted by ghosts of films gone past, from the expressionist 1930s gangsterism of Brighton Rock,4 to Quadrophenia’s love song, to Mod culture5 and Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa,6 where on Brighton Pier Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson play out a remarkable scene of emotional decimation as the pier carouses around them.
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