On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)C

Reviled, rioted over, and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creaturesis 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, as well as a scandal taken to the United States Supreme Court, described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio." The story of Flaming Creaturesis augmented with a dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon.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 Loveand No President, as well as shorter film fragments.Hoberman, J. is the author of 'On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc)C' with ISBN 9781887123525 and ISBN 1887123520.