Chant Damour
Jean Genet, the French author illfamed for his overt cele-bration of criminality and homosexuality, was likewise fascinated with cinema.
??His only film, Un Chant d’amour, made in 1950, was a poetic and sexually explicit visual paean to homosexual desire, the criminal impulse, and the power of the imagination. Banned on the grounds of obscenity, the film has since become a cause celebre of gay rights and freedom of expression, as well as being recognized as a masterwork of underground cinema.
??Criminal Desires contains finish documentation of the making of Un Chant d’amour, including an illustrated shot-by-shot description, thematic analysis, and exhibition history.
??The book likewise documents:
? Genet’s numerous other unfilmed screenplays.
? Film appearances by Genet himself.
? Screen adaptations of Genet’s work made by other managing directors including Deathwatch, The Maids, Todd Haynes’ 1, and Fassbinder’s extraordinary and apocalyptic imagination of Querelle.
??Illustrated allround and featuring an introduction by acclaimed novelist and Genet biographer, Edmund White, Criminal Desires is a compelling induction into Jean Genet’s underworld of prisons, voyeurism, and homosexual lust which starkly illuminates a arousing and attention holding zone of forbidden cinema.
?? Jean Genet is a world-famous author and gay hero: This is the only book dealing quintessentially with his involvement with, and kinship to, cinema.
? Volume 2 in new quality Film Studies series: Persistence of Vision.
? Cover quotes from Edmund White, Derek Jarman and Marc Almond.
? Cross-over amongst cinema and gay markets.
? National press coverage, and full online promotion.
??Jane Giles is conductor of cinema at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #2085985 in Books
- Published on: 2002-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.14 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
