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Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film (2016)
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Halligan, B. (2016). Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film. New York and London: Berghahn Books

Desires for Reality: Radicalism and Revolution in Western European Film addresses a provocative and controversial period of European cinema: the high-tide of dissenting and militant film-making, of 1968, and its aftermath. This study offers an immers... Read More about Desires for reality : radicalism and revolution in Western European film.

The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment (2015)
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(2015). B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment is the first sustained engagement with what might be said to be - in its melding of concert and gathering, in its evolving relationship with digital and social media, in its delivery of event, ex... Read More about The arena concert : music, media and mass entertainment.

The music documentary : acid rock to electropop (2013)
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(2013). B. Halligan, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The music documentary : acid rock to electropop. US and UK: Routledge

The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music document... Read More about The music documentary : acid rock to electropop.

Resonances : noise and contemporary music (2013)
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(2013). M. Goddard, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), Resonances : noise and contemporary music. New York and London: Continuum / Bloomsbury

Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or distract rather than enrapture. And yet the drones of psychedelia, the racket of garage rock and punk, the thudding of rave, the feedback of shoegaze and post-rock, the bombast of thr... Read More about Resonances : noise and contemporary music.

Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (2012)
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(2012). B. Halligan, M. Goddard, & P. Hegarty (Eds.), Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise. London and New York: Continuum

Noise permeates our highly mediated and globalised cultures. Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice is a way of intervening so that it can be harnessed for an aesthetic expression not caught within mainstream styles or distribution. Thi... Read More about Reverberations: The philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise.

Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art music and politics (2010)
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Goddard, M., & Halligan, B. (2010). M. Goddard, & B. Halligan (Eds.), Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art music and politics. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate

An edited collection with Benjamin Halligan that examines the post-punk music of Mark E. Smith and The Fall form a variety of critical perspectives.

Michael Reeves (2003)
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Halligan, B. (2003). Michael Reeves. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press