Presents a history of underground cinema, discovering the cultural roots found in nineteenth-century Paris and medieval London, but situates it as a radical and popular subculture separate from mainstream cinema and avant-garde film.
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. Thi…
And Yoko Ono, and finally the critical assessment of his own films, from Guns of the Trees and The Brig in the sixties to the diary films that followed Walden. Film-distributor, and filmmaker, while exploring the history of independent cinema in New York since World War II. Thi…
Jonas Mekas, one of the driving forces behind New York's alternative film culture from the 1950s through the 1980s, made for an unlikely counterculture hero: a Lithuanian emigre and fervent nationalist from an agrarian family, he had not grown up with either capitalist commercia…
Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses - the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation. This book reflects the pulp-punk spirit of the Cinema of Transgression.
