Deathtripping: Underground Trash Cinema (ScreenPrint) [Paperback]

Jack Sargeant (Author)

Book Description

Series: ScreenPrint | Publication Date: December 28, 2007

This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch. Also discussed are seminal influences such as the Kuchar brothers, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol as well as the history of underground and trash cinema.

Editorial Reviews

Review

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 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

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press; Revised edition (December 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933368950
• ISBN-13: 978-1933368955
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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