Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
|
Buy Now
Flowers of Perversion - The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,201
Discovery Miles 12 010
You Save: R462
(28%)
|
|
Flowers of Perversion - The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesus
"Jess" Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian
the Perverted Virgin. Jesus "Jess" Franco is an iconic figure in
world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of
filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for
lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning
his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of
budgets. In the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he
pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly,
throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The
director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in
a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per
year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.
Franco's taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession
with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style
launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting,
and defiantly avant-garde, films such as Necronomicon, Vampyros
Lesbos, Virgin Among the Living Dead, and Venus in Furs are among
the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple
versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco
experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the
viewer who dares enter Franco's domain. Stephen Thrower has devoted
five years to examining each and every Franco film. This book-the
second in a two-volume set-delves into the latter half of Franco's
career, covering titles including Shining Sex, Barbed Wire Dolls,
Swedish Nympho Slaves, and Lilian the Perverted Virgin. Assisted by
the esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, Thrower shines
a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and
uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their
casts, crews, and production histories. Unparalleled in scope and
ambition, Flowers of Perversion brings Franco's career into focus
with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive
assessment of Jess Franco's labyrinthine film universe.
General
Imprint: |
Strange Attractor Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2019 |
First published: |
2018 |
Authors: |
Stephen Thrower
• Julian Grainger
|
Dimensions: |
276 x 246 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
512 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-907222-60-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Biography & autobiography >
Film, television, music, theatre
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
Individual film directors, film-makers
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
History of art / art & design styles >
From 1900 >
Art styles, 1960 - >
Electronic & video art
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Art forms, treatments & subjects >
Art treatments & subjects >
Iconography, subjects depicted in art >
Human figures depicted in art >
Erotic art
Books >
Biography >
Film, television, music, theatre
|
LSN: |
1-907222-60-X |
Barcode: |
9781907222603 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|