Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Kate Bush and the Moving Image

Kate Bush and the Moving Image

Glynn, Stephen

Paperback

Film StudiesGeneral MusicGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032766867
ISBN13: 9781032766867
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 26 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In this unique study, Stephen Glynn demonstrates that Kate Bush's work, in both sound and vision, has long been influenced and characterised by, and at times aimed at, film and television media.

The volume explores in depth Bush's 'music of allusion' and analyses first the significance of film and television references throughout the lyrics and settings of her songs, beginning with her breakthrough hit 'Wuthering Heights'. It also surveys the shaping presence of film and television in the look, narrative and artistry of her music videos, including the examination of celebrated works such as 'Cloudbusting' and 'Hounds of Love'. Finally, the book assesses Bush's most intensive cinematic undertaking, her 1993 album The Red Shoes, with its evident homage to the 1948 film of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and its concurrent visual reworking as Bush's sole film venture, The Line, The Cross & The Curve. Thus, with its deployment across music, video and film, Glynn demonstrates the centrality of Kate Bush's cinephilia to her work.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Glynn, Stephen

View All

Also in

General Sociology

View All