{"product_id":"flaming-creatures-9780231191470","title":"Flaming Creatures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanned soon after its first midnight screenings, Jack Smith’s incendiary \u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) quickly became a cause célèbre of the New York underground. This study of Smith’s magnum opus explores its status as a cult film that appropriates the visual texture, erotic nuance, and overt fabrication of old Hollywood exoticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstantine Verevis's \u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e dissects and maps with great affection the tangled network of intertextual appropriations Jack Smith performed in his landmark film. While the film has provoked censorship and admiration, scorn and expressions of the sublime, Verevis reveals Smith's \"secret-flix\" in rich detail, illuminating both aesthetic and cultural confrontations that now mark the transition to contemporary cinema.  A feast of historical and filmic information. -- Janet Staiger, author of \u003ci\u003ePerverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive study of this classic and controversial avant-garde film, from its production and reception history to its complex, even fraught, place in the New York experimental scene, to scene-by-scene meanings, performance styles, and overall artistic accomplishments. Verevis even uses his well-known talents as a top scholar of film remakes to clarify the film’s status as a complicated yet loving ode to Hollywood kitsch. -- Dana Polan, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Background and Production\u003cbr\u003e2. Reception and Controversy\u003cbr\u003e3. The Film Work: \u003ci\u003eFlaming Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Aftermath and Legacy\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400338678103,"sku":"9780231191470","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231191470.jpg?v=1730470432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/flaming-creatures-9780231191470","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}