| |
|
| Deathtripping is the first fully comprehensive account of the New York underground film movement, its prehistory, development and key players... There isn't any more anyone need know about Transgression after this. Deathtripping is the first and the last word on the subject. —Headpress |
| A long-overdue, exhaustively comprehensive documentation of the Cinema of Transgression. Massively illustrated with rare, sometimes hair-raising photographs...The book will appeal to casual toe-dippers and the hard-core cognoscenti. —Skin Two |
| A reader-friendly work that is an impressive and exhaustively researched study of a fascinating chapter in the history of American cinema. —Micro-Film | |
Deathtripping
Jack Sargeant
|
| Paper | 6" x 9" | 288 pgs. | ISBN: 1-933368-95-0 | List: $18.95 | 01/1/2008 |
Available on Powells.com, Amazon.com, from your local BookSense store, and bookstores everywhere!
|
Featuring: Heavily illustrated with rare photographs
A unique document, the definitive guide to the roots, philosophy and development of a style of an influential genre of film-making
Overlaps with the New York art/rock scenes of the 70's and 80s
About the book: Deathtripping focuses on the post-punk New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd and explores in depth Zedd's demand for a cinema from which "none shall emerge unscathed."
Contextualising the work of these filmmakers within the wider underground film and downtown post-punk no wave scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analysis of the extreme, cult films produced by this loose knit movement, alongside interviews with infamous and legendary filmmakers including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Beth B and Cassandra Stark, and their collaborators Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, David Wojnarowicz, and Lung Leg. It contains:
A brief history of underground/ trash cinema
Discussions of seminal influences such as Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar
Interviews with key film-makers, such as Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Cassandra Start, Beth B, Tommy Turner, plus associates such as Joe Coleman, Lydia Lunch and Lung Leg.
Notes and essays on transgressive cinema, philosophy of transgression, manifestos.
Film index, bibliography
About the author: Jack Sargeant is a writer and lecturer who is fascinated by the limits of human behaviour, and the aesthetic, political, sexual, and philosophical challenges to these limits. In addition to his fascination with underground culture, extreme behaviour, neglected histories, and obscure philosophies Sargeant has also written on various perverse manifestations of contemporary culture--these essays, on topics ranging from pop songs about car crashes to medical fetishism, and from Andy Warhol's film work to serial killers and mass murderers--have been published in a variety of books and magazines including FORTEAN TIMES, PANIK, HEADPRESS, BIZARRE, BB GUN, and many others. His fascination with the limits of human nature motivated his hardboiled true crime writing, including the book BORN BAD, and two volumes edited by Sargeant DEATH CULTS, and BAD COP BAD COP.
He is a regular on the lecture circuit, and frequent guest / curator at venues and festivals in New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Sydney, London, Berlin, Brussels, and all points in-between. Sargeant has also made numerous television and radio appearances, appearing alongside Thurston Moore and Richard Kern in LOVE AND ANARCHY: THE WILD, WILD WORLD OF JAMIE LEONARDER which received a highly successful premier at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July 2002. Sargeant is also a subject of a Danish television program NEW APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE broadcast in 1999.
He is 38 years old and currently divides his time between England and Australia. He hates relaxing. |
