BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen Cultures – ‘A country club for criminals and lunatics and people that were high’: The inside story of the Scala cinema, 1978-1993
C284 Curzon B, BirminghamJane Giles (independent film writer) ‘A country club for criminals and lunatics and people that were high’: The inside story of the Scala cinema, 1978-1993 John Waters’ description of the Scala - AKA the ’Sodom Odeon’ - scratches the surface of why it became the most influential and notorious cinema in London. Post-punk and pre-digital, […]
