Flaming Creatures

by Constantine Verevis

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 c l bre of the New York underground. Championed and defended by Jonas Mekas and Susan Sontag, among others, the film wildly and gleefully transgresses nearly every norm of Hollywood morality and aesthetics. In a surreal and visually dense series of episodes, the titular "creatures"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231191472
• ISBN13: 9780231191470
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.9"