Surrender to the Spectacle: The Value of Entertainment
2005; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 11; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/13534640500058483
ISSN1460-700X
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Rudi Geinrich began as an early gay liberationist, but became famous as the first designer to bare the female breast in bathing suits and evening gowns. Kenneth Anger, maker of underground films, including Scorpio Rising (1963), wrote the most notorious of the Hollywood scandal books. Jack Smith, who made the film Flaming Creatures (1961) died of AIDS in 1989. Manuel Puig kept a library of more than 4000 videotaped films which he watched with his mother daily. Andy Warhol's diary is mostly gossip. John Waters collects mementoes about mass murders. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Dir. Stanley Donen (1954). John Woo cites this movie as one of the inspirations for his violence‐ballets. The Fly. Dir. Kurt Neumann (1958). For example: Scum of the Earth. Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis (1963); One Shocking Moment. Dir. Ted V. Mikels (1965); Olga's House of Shame. Dir. Joseph P. Mawra (1964); The Agony of Love. Dir. William Rotsler (1966); Mondo Bizarro. Dir. Lee Frost (1966); A Taste of Her Flesh. Dir. Doris Wishman (1967); The Orgy at Lil's Place. Dir. Andy Milligan (1963). Perhaps the only filmmaker of this genre to later come into prominence was Russ Meyer, who specialized in comic adult films. The entire genre came and went in a few years as censorship laws were relaxed. Until recently the genre was barely remembered. Now such films are becoming fetishized by the lovers of the marginal. I applaud this development. Alan Bowne, Forty‐Deuce (Perry Street Theater, 1979), later appearing as a film directed by Paul Morrissey in 1982.
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