Flaming Creatures

Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smith's incendiary...
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Author: Constantine Verevis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Flaming Creatures by Verevis, Constantine

Flaming Creatures

€35,31

Flaming Creatures

€35,31
Author: Constantine Verevis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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" reenact scenes drawn from the collective cinematic unconscious, playing on mainstream film culture's moral code in a way that is at once a love letter to classical Hollywood and a searing send-up of its absurdities.

Tracing the film's production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smith's multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past. This study of Smith's magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and overt fabrication of old Hollywood exoticism.

Author: Constantine Verevis
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780231191470

About the Author
Constantine Verevis is associate professor of film and screen studies at Monash University. He is the author of Film Remakes (2005) and coeditor of B Is for Bad Cinema (2014), among other titles.

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