2011 144pp Hips Road/Tzadik trade paperback. Illustrated. NM.
 
Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as a visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is 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. Described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio," the story of Flaming Creatures is here augmented with a dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon. the monograph includes further material on his unfinished features Normal Love and No President, as well as shorter film fragments.