Keith Allison's Blog - Posts Tagged "diabolique"

I have joined the Diabolique magazine online team, and my inaugural rambling essay is about the things I love most in life: Beat Girl, Gillian Hills, go-go dancing, hip slang, seedy nightclubs, teenage rebellion, and Oliver Reed in a checkered shirt. It's part one in an ongoing exploration of films released as part of the BFI Flipside series.

Machine Made Dirt: “Beat Girl” and the Birth of the British Teenager

https://diaboliquemagazine.com/machin...

I'm on Diabolique, writing about the swingin' 1965 British film THE PLEASURE GIRLS and it's strange relation to a famous British scandal.

Read it: One Slow Descent into Respectability: Prostitutes, Profumo, and the Pleasure Girls