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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 célèbre of the New York underground. Championed and defended by Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag, among others, the film wildly and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Cultographies
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 film stills
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. BACKGROUND AND PRODUCTION
  • 2. RECEPTION AND CONTROVERSY
  • 3. THE FILM WORK: FLAMING CREATURES
  • 4. AFTERMATH AND LEGACY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX