Michael Reeves

by Benjamin Halligan

Cine-literate and single-minded, Michael Reeves took on exploitative film production companies, the British censors, and even Vincent Price to create a unique vision of savage poetry and lacerating despair: Witchfinder General. He died aged 25 in 1969, between the end of Swinging London and the collapse of the British film industry - an apt candidate to represent all that could have been. This critical biography claims Reeves as the great, lost auteur...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719063515
• ISBN13: 9780719063510
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 8.0"