Headpress imprint: 35 books

Hip Pocket Sleaze

The Lurid World of Vintage Adult Paperbacks

by John Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

Hip Pocket Sleaze is an introduction to the world of vintage, lurid adult paperbacks. Charting the rise of sleazy pulp fiction during the 1960s and 1970s and reviewing many of the key titles, the book takes an informed look at the various genres and markets from this enormously prolific era, from groundbreaking...

The Eccentropedia

The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived

by Chris Mikul
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 true stories of the most original and outrageous people on earth, from bad poets to transsexual evolutionary theorists this encyclopedic guide covering ancient times to the present, includes reams of material never seen in book form before. Famous eccentrics like King Ludwig,...

Are You In The House Alone?

A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999

by Amanda Reyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

Beginning in the 1960s through its heyday in the 1970s and beyond, the telefilm remains an important cultural artefact masquerading as disposable entertainment. Made specifically for the small screen, within the tight constraints of broadcasting standards, what these humble movies lacked in budget and...

Fight Your Own War

Power Electronics and Noise Culture

by Jennifer Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

Power electronics is a genre of industrial or ‘noise’ music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content — whether in lyrics, album...

Trashfiend

Disposable Horror Fare of the 1960s & 1970s

by Scott Stine
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A loving look at disposable horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s. Over two glorious decades the horror film waged war on good taste, exploiting every taboo and bursting every envelope along the way. TRASHFIEND is the definitive guide to the chaotic, creative and endlessly entertaining golden age...

Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon

Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream

by David McGowan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place where a dizzying array of musical artists congregated to create much of the music that provided the soundtrack to those turbulent times. Members...

Chelsea Hotel Manhattan

A Raw Eulogy To A New York Icon

by Joe Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The Chelsea Hotel is part of New York’s cultural fabric. It has been witness to murder, drug overdoses, suicide and scandal. In its rooms famous movies were conceived, hit songs written, and artworks created. This blistering book is a snapshot based on the diaries and notes of Joe Ambrose, written...

Fascination

The Celluloid Dreams Of Jean Rollin

by David Hinds
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

May 1968. Paris is awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, where a surreal film is showing, another riot is taking place. Here, the enraged audience smashes up the auditorium, tear out the seats, and chase the film’s director onto the street. This is the premiere of Jean Rollin’s...

Gathering of the Tribe

Music and Heavy Conscious Creation

by Mark Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

This is a fascinating overview of music's intriguing and enduring relationship with the dark side. Much of the music discussed in Gathering Of The Tribe deals with the special power of sound and tone. Frank Zappa may have said that ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture,’ but...

Bleeding Skull!

A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey

by Joseph A. Ziemba
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey is the definitive resource on 1980s trash-horror cinema. BLEEDING SKULL! features 300 in-depth reviews of movies that have escaped the radar of people with taste and the tolerance of critics. Black Devil Doll From Hell, A Night To Dismember, Heavy Metal...

Into The Unknown

The Fantastic Life of Nigel Kneale (Revised & Updated)

by Andy Murray
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

Since the earliest days of British television drama, scriptwriter Nigel Kneale has been a seminal figure. His Quatermass serials for the BBC were a seismic event in the 1950s, before finding international success when adapted by Hammer Films for the big screen. Later TV plays, such as The Road, The Stone...

Beaver Street

A History of Modern Pornography

by Robert Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup. In BEAVER STREET: A HISTORY OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous...

Sun Ra

Interviews & Essays

by John Sinclair
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A collection of interviews and essays on Sun Ra, his contemporaries, his records, his myth and his fan base. Composer, bandleader, pianist and space philosopher, Sun Ra was a unique individual and one of the most colorful and enduring of musical legacies, transcending time, place and culture. From...

killing for culture

From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film

by David Kerekes
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. Little over a century later the executions are real and...
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