A Hard Day’s Night
Sun 8 Dec 2024, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Come and relive all the fun, excitement, and chaos of Beatlemania at our special 60th anniversary screening of A Hard Day’s Night. Packed with classic Beatles songs written and recorded at lightning speed, this modestly made, relatively low budget pop flick captured a real sense of a cultural moment unfolding. Six decades on, it remains every bit as sharp, funny, and fetchingly insolent as it did on its first release.
Introductory talk: Prior to the screening, hear all about how the film came to be made and the impact it had from our resident Settlement pop culture specialists, Christopher Budd and Stephen Barnard. £10 online / on the door, or FREE for attendees of The Beertles’ concerts at the Settlement on 7th December.
Event Information
Price: £10.00
Room: Brunt Room
Campaign: Autumn Term 2024
Your Tutor
Name: Christopher Budd & Stephen Barnard
Bio: Christopher is a writer, teacher, and musician, with a specialism in music for film. His interests range from silent cinema to electronic music via Hollywood from the studio system to the experimental ’70s, and British and European film and music of the 1960s and 70s. He has written for publications including Music Teacher and Classical Music on diverse topics and contributes regularly to music magazine Shindig!. He also teaches private instrumental lessons and records as a session musician.
Stephen spent 21 years as a specialist writer with Reader’s Digest before going freelance in 1999. He has been writing and lecturing on broadcasting, film and popular music on a part-time basis for over 30 years. He has run courses for the WEA, De Montfort University, the City University and a number of Hertfordshire arts groups, and his five books include Studying Radio, the standard academic textbook on the subject.
Department: Humanities
