Brit Show Off. (2011). The British Guide to Showing Off- Official Trailer. [Online Video]. 11 October. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znffz-5Nj4. [Accessed: 17 November 2014].
The British Guide to Showing Off is a documentary following Andrew Logan in his journey to put together the 12th Miss Alternative World Show which started in 1972. The film features many videos from past shows, and includes many celebrities and past performers talking about their experiences of the show. I got a little excited at one point as I was in the maypole dance group who are in a few parts of the film when I was young, but I had left before they filmed this documentary!
The videos and talks about past shows were the most interesting to me, and the most comparable to Cabaret as the tales they tell of the club scene and creating a new, cutting edge alternative view of beauty is just like what happened in Weimar Berlin with so much revolutionary change to society and social norms.
Unlike Party Monster, this film did not focus on the club scene with all the drugs, but instead focused on the relationships people formed and how fun it was to be part of such a ground breaking event, where people from all over the world could enter and express themselves in the most extreme ways- much like how people would travel to Berlin to have a taste of the night life and acceptance.
"I think it's rather lack of imagination, man to woman, there's so many other things you can be."- Andrew Logan
"I think it's rather lack of imagination, man to woman, there's so many other things you can be."- Andrew Logan
The British Guide to Showing Off, 2011. [DVD] Benstock, J, United Kingdom: Verve Pictures.
Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World. 2014. Andrew Logan's Alternative Miss World. [ONLINE] Available at: http://alternativemissworld.co.uk/history/#. [Accessed 17 November 2014].
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