Flaming creatures /
Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, Jack Smith's incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. This study of Smith's magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and over...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
2019.
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| Series: | Cultographies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/vere19147 |
| Summary: | Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, Jack Smith's incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231851305 0231851308 |