Flesh and excess : on underground film / Jack Sargeant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sargeant, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Amok, 2015.

Summary:

In Flesh and Excess Jack Sargeant comprehensively examines the body-focused and transgressive films that first seduced him. Through films emerging from the No Wave and Industrial cultures to the VMS and zine-pro-pelied explosion of underground film in the 1990s, Sargeant surgically repeals an underground film culture that remains radical and significant. By focusing on key works and ideas, Sargeant asserts the mandate for shocking bodily representations and interventions in cinema, Punctuating his film writing with philosophical analysis and explorations of areas as diverse as dissident surrealists, outlaw sexuality, Butoh dance, and medical fetishism, the book compels the reader to re-examine the very nature of the film experience. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Port of Entry 19

Chapter 2 Searching for the Underground 37

Chapter 3 Underground After Underground/Underground Again 57

Chapter 4 From Ocular Defilement to the Unleashed Desires of the Shit Children 97

Chapter 5 Wounds, Injuries and Blood: Opening the Body 123

Chapter 6 Heterogeneous Excesses and Total Sex 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [208]-217) and discography (page [218]).

ISBN:

1878923285

9781878923288

OCLC:

907450159