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The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic
Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally
regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of
dictatorship and government in general, the movie was a critical
failure and box-office let-down on its initial release in 1933. J.
Hoberman's study of the film traces its reputation history, from
the initial disappointment of its release, to its rise to cult
status in the 1960s when the Marx's anarchic, anti-establishment
humor seemed again timely. Hoberman places Duck Soup, alongside
analogous comedies-Dr. Strangelove (1964), the Beatles films,
Morgan! (1966), The President's Analyst (1967) and The Producers
(1968). It attained canonical stature as a touchstone for Woody
Allen and would be recognized by the Library of Congress in the
1990s. Hoberman's analysis provides a historical and political
context as well as an in-depth production history, drawing on
primary sources and emphasizing director McCarey's prior work along
with the Marx Brothers as well as the situation at Paramount, a
substantial synopsis, and an account of the movie's initial
reception, concluding with its subsequent elevation to comic
masterpiece.
Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was
recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack
Smith's "Flaming Creatures" is one of the most important and
influential underground movies ever released in America. J.
Hoberman's monograph details the creative making--and legal
unmaking--of this extraordinary film, a source of inspiration for
artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and John
Waters. Described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music
studio," the story of "Flaming Creatures" is here augmented with a
dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and
remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman
Solomon. Expanding on notes originally prepared for the 1997
retrospective on Jack Smith at the American Museum of the Moving
Image, the monograph includes further material on his unfinished
features "Normal Love" and "No President," as well as shorter film
fragments.
A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and
art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and
transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated
publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have
pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the
past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile
properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation
and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether
creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or
non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists
have explored how technology transforms experience. The essays
published here offer an intensive look at the themes of cinematic
space, formats of the screen, animation and CGI, the body and the
cyborg, and the materiality of film. Contributors place particular
emphasis on the idea of the cinema as a sensorium and on the ways
in which it defines the human body, both through representation and
in relation to the projected image. An immersive plate section
brings together rarely seen and previously unpublished stills, in
addition to concept drawings from historic and contemporary films.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition
Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(10/28/16-02/05/17)
In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the
vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York.
Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often
performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative spaces
of the city's SoHo district, often for an audience comprising a
handful of fellow artists, this catalogue makes newly visible a
critical period in the development of performance art. Rituals of
Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of
twenty artists, including Stuart Sherman; collaborators Yvonne
Rainer and Babette Mangotle; Julia Heyward; Jill Kroesen; Richard
Foreman; Squat Theatre; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary
playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. With an array of
previously unpublished images, including installation photographs,
scripts, handwritten notes, and other ephemera, drawn from the
artists' own archives, this volume illuminates the eccentric
singularities of the performance art of this era and its relevance
today. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art
(10/31/13-02/02/14)
Testosterone has inspired dreams - of restored youth, recharged
sexual appetites, faster running, quicker thinking, bigger muscles
- since it was first synthesized in 1935. This provocative book
investigates the complex, bizarre, and sometimes outrageous history
of synthetic testosterone and other male hormone therapies.
Exploring many little-known social arenas - both inside and outside
the medical world - in which these substances are becoming
increasingly available and accepted, "Testosterone Dreams" examines
the implications and dangers of their use in professional sports,
in the workplace, in our sex lives, and beyond. "Testosterone
Dreams" tells the story of testosterone's growing and sometimes
concealed influence in our culture over the past 70 years. It
explores such controversial topics as the invention and marketing
of the male menopause, the disturbing history of hormonal and other
medical treatments aimed at boosting or suppressing women's
sexuality, and hormone doping in sporting events such as the Tour
de France and the Olympics, and in Major League Baseball. It brings
to light the hidden use of hormone doping by policemen, soldiers,
and other workers in a variety of jobs. It also discusses the
burgeoning steroid use in the gay community and its relation to
AIDS, and takes a hard look at the pharmaceutical industry's
promotional campaigns to create new markets for testosterone
products. "Testosterone Dreams" is the first book to bring together
the whole story of testosterone and to consider its social and
ethical implications: Where does therapy end and performance
enhancement begin? How are changing medical technologies affecting
how we think about our identities as men and women and the elusive
goal of 'well-being'? This book will be essential reading as we
move inexorably toward the wide-open, libertarian pharmacology that
is now making these drug regimes available to a wider and wider
clientele.
One of the world's most erudite and entertaining film critics on
the state of cinema in the post-digital--and post-9/11--age. This
witty and allusive book, in the style of classic film
theorists/critics like Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer, includes
considerations of global cinema's most important figures and films,
from Lars von Trier and Zia Jiangke to "WALL-E," "Avatar" and
"Inception."
A new anthology from one of America's foremost critics of movies
and culture
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