Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smith's incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause c l bre of the New York underground. Championed and defended by Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag, among others, the film wildly and gleefully transgresses nearly every norm of Hollywood morality and aesthetics. In a surreal and visually dense series of episodes, the titular "creatures"...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231191472
ISBN13:9780231191470
Release Date:November 2019
Publisher:Wallflower Press
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 4.3" x 6.9"
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