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Cargando... Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger (1995)por Bill Landis
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Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an underground filmmaker whose tremendous influence has been acknowledged by directors as diverse as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Dennis Hopper. As the father and most highly regarded member of American cinema's avant-garde, Anger made three films now considered masterpieces: Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising. More than forty years later his aesthetic ripple is still being felt in contemporary mediums such as rock videos.
Beginning with Anger's life as a child actor in Hollywood (he was featured in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mickey Rooney), Bill Landis's biography takes the reader on a wild journey from the beginning of the underground film movement in the United States and Europe through the equally underground gay world of the '40s and '50s to the '60s in London and San Francisco, when Anger was at his peak of fame, and up to the present. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Journalist Bill Landis was a personal associate of Anger's in the early 1980s, but was no longer on good terms with him personally when this book was written a decade later. The "unauthorized" qualifier of the subtitle is sensationalist in a way that is hardly alien to Anger's own creative history. In the later chapters that involve or approach Landis's own direct interactions with Anger, there is some significant bathos.
Most chapters conclude with a scene-by-scene gloss (often shot-by-shot) of one of Anger's major films. Landis calls Anger a "great artist" (263) and justly lauds Anger's accomplishments as an experimental film auteur, tracing his acknowledged and evident influence on cinema in various markets and genres.
The book conveys the importance of Aleister Crowley's Thelemic occultism to Anger, and Anger's importance to late 20th-century occultists. However, throughout the text, there are rather hilarious misunderstandings of what "Crowleyites believe" (e.g. 68-9). Landis uses the word "ipsissimus" as a synonym for apex (14) in a way that makes it clear that he approaches occultist materials with a sort of recklessness regarding his own understanding of the terminology and phenomena.
Still, the book supplies solid and intelligible accounts of the various cultural milieux accessed and penetrated by Anger and of the personalities with whom he connected, both esoteric and exoteric. The narrative is very incomplete, inasmuch as the point at which it ends (just before the time in which I had my own brief and inconsequential firsthand meeting with Anger) was a full generation prior to Anger's demise. I don't know if the resistance that Landis describes (xiii) was given to later treatments by Anne Hutchinson and Jack Hunter, although those books purport to treat the work more than the man. As far as I am aware, Anger remains the only avowed biography of its subject.