Deathtripping

Author: Jack Sargeant
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1933368950
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.

Deathtripping

Author: Jack Sargeant
Publisher: Creation Books
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
An illustrated history, account and critique of he Cinema of Transgression', providing a long-overdue and comprehensice documentation of this essential, modern sociological and cultural movement. With a brief history of underground film, and studies of seminal influences including Warhol, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar and John Waters and interviews with Richard Kern and Nick Zedd, this is an extensive illustrated film guide with synopses and critiques of key works of transgressive cinema and related films.'

Flesh and Excess

Author: Jack Sargeant
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN: 9781878923288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Focusing on key works by two award-winning underground filmmakers, Usama Alshaibi and Aryan Kaganoff, Sargeant examines the desire and the need for shocking bodily representations and interventions in film. Challenging readers to examine the nature of pleasure, of viewing and of experiencing cinema, he punctuates his writing with philosophical analysis while exploring industrial culture, surrealism, butoh dance, fine art and medical fetishism.

Fascination

Author: David Hinds
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1909394246
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
May 1968. Paris is awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, where a surreal film is showing, another riot is taking place. Here, the enraged audience smashes up the auditorium, tear out the seats, and chase the film’s director onto the street. This is the premiere of Jean Rollin’s feature debut, The Rape of the Vampire. An outsider of French cinema, Rollin’s films are unique and dreamlike. They offer tales of mystery and nostalgia, obsolescence and seductive female vampires with a thirst for blood and sex. It is a cinema at once strange, evocative and deeply personal. Funding his own projects, Rollin defiantly made the films he wanted to make and in so doing created a fantastique genre unlike any other. The Nude Vampire, The Living Dead Girl and The Grapes of Death are among those films now celebrated as the work of an auteur, one who confounds preconceived notions of ‘Eurotrash’ cinema. This book is devoted to the director and all his work, across all genres, including a nascent French hardcore pornographic film industry. Written with full co-operation from Jean Rollin, shortly before his death in 2010, it contains exclusive interviews and archive material.

The Bad Mirror

Author: Jack Hunter
Publisher: Creation Books
ISBN:
Category : Exploitation films
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Collecting writings from all 18 volumes of the Creating Cinema Collection series, this title forms a wide-ranging illustrated anthology of cutting-edge alternative film journalism from the past eight years.

Fight Your Own War

Author: Jennifer Wallis
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1909394416
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Power electronics is a genre of industrial or ‘noise’ music that utilises feedback and synthesizers to produce an intense, loud, challenging sound. To match this sonic excess, power electronics also relies heavily upon extreme thematic and visual content — whether in lyrics, album art, or live performance. The result is a violent, ecstatic, and potentially consciousness-altering spectacle, and a genre that often invites strong reactions from both listeners and critics. FIGHT YOUR OWN WAR is the first English-language book primarily devoted to power electronics. Written by artists, fans, and critics from around the world, its essays and reviews explore the current state of the genre, from early development through to live performance, listener experience, artist motivation, gender and subcultures such as ‘Japanoise’. In considering this ‘spectacle’ of noise, how far can we simply label power electronics as a genre of shock tactics or of transgression for transgression’s sake?

Ethics of Contemporary Art

Author: Theo Reeves-Evison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501339915
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
What happens when the shock of artistic transgression wears off, when scandal dissipates, when outrage becomes a tired routine? In this original new book, Theo Reeves-Evison argues that transgressive art no longer succeeds on its own terms in societies where language, prohibition and morality have become increasingly malleable. This compels us to rethink the relationship between contemporary art and ethics, and focus our attention on the potential of artworks to propose new values rather than simply challenge pre-existing moral codes. Assembling a novel theoretical framework from the writings of Félix Guattari, Jacques Lacan and others, Ethics of Contemporary Art narrates a journey away from transgression towards a new critical paradigm for the relationship between ethics and aesthetics that places questions of subjectivity centre stage. Along the way artworks by Kader Attia, Artur Zmijewski, Dora Garcia and others serve as springboards launching discussions of the varied pathways along which a renewed ethics of contemporary art might develop.

Suttree

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307762475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road, here is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there—a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters—he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Dennis Hopper

Author: Jack Hunter
Publisher: Creation Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
Dennis Hopper One of the most talented but controversial actors of recent decades, almost as notorious for his off-screen hell-raising as he is for his roles in such powerful films as his self-directed The Last Movie, David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and Tim Hunter's River's Edge. Jack Hunter (author of film studies Inside Teradome and Eros In Hell) has selected his own chronological Top Ten of Dennis Hopper's movies, which are analysed in illustrated, in-depth essays by some of the best cutting-edge film critics of today. The result is both an incisive overview of Dennis Hopper as an actor, and an anthology of films by some of the leading cult directors of recent decades such as Wim Wenders, Tobe Hooper, David Lynch, Tim Hunter, Henry Jaglom, Curtis Harrington, and Hopper himself. Featured films include: Night Tide, The Last Movie, Tracks, Speed, The American Friend, Out Of The Blue, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Blue Velvet, Rivers Edge, and Paris Trout.

Soul Searching

Author: Julian Wright
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244680078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
A WORLD FULL OF HUMANS, BUT DEVOID OF LIFE Death has finally hung up his scythe: all the souls have been gathered, the Earth just a museum piece for the machines. Now, he spends his time relaxing in the void with the one and only machine-built soul - a soul that cannot enter paradise. All is peaceful until one soul escapes from heaven, forcing Death and his ghostlike companion on a journey that may destroy the very concept of what it means to be alive. The second novel in J. S. Wright's ever-increasing collection, Soul Searching throws a fresh perspective on the eternal philosophical questions of life, death, freewill and whether a red dress is practical attire for reaping. Whilst he has been unable to get hold of people famous enough to quote on the front cover, Julian's works have been highly recommended by his editor, at least one of his friends, and his mother.