The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. Good. Item #11151
ISBN: 9781846310140
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. First Edition. Oblong quarto (11.5 x 8.5"); 23pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated boards with green cloth spine and black lettering. Boards heavily rubbed with exposure at corners and spine ends, with splits starting at bottoms of both joints. Spine cocked. Creasing to back pastedown along gutter. Staining along bottom of textblock, but not encroaching up into pages themselves, with a but of a musty smell. Notes (either page or phone numbers) written clumsily in blue pen on copyright page at back, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. A bit rough overall, but internally sound and legible.
Published to accompany the exhibition The Ghosts of Song: A Retrospective of the Black Audio Film Collective, which travelled from Liverpool to Bristol and finally to London between February 2007 and August 2008. The BAFC was a group of Black British and diaspora filmmakers and artists active from 1982 - 1998, whose work focused on Black identity and the Black British experience and responded to contemporary social and post-colonial theory. The British Film Institute states that the BAFC created "some of the most challenging and experimental documentaries in Britain in the 1980s."
Price: $600.00