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Product Identifiers
PublisherGranary Books, Incorporated
ISBN-101887123520
ISBN-139781887123525
eBay Product ID (ePID)1912571
Product Key Features
Book TitleOn Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures : (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicFilm / General, Film / Genres / General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts)
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorJack Smith
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-040389
Dewey Edition21
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal791.43/72
SynopsisReviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and influential underground movies ever released in America. J. Hoberman's monograph details the creative making--and legal unmaking--of this extraordinary film, a source of inspiration for artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and John Waters. Described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio," the story of Flaming Creatures is here augmented with a dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon. Expanding on notes originally prepared for the 1997 retrospective on Jack Smith at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the monograph includes further material on his unfinished features Normal Love and No President , as well as shorter film fragments.