Coming Unbuttoned
Subtitle: A Memoir
By: James Broughton.
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: 1993
Place of publication: San Francisco, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780872862807
Subjects: Broughton, James Richard, 1913-; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
Description: "This witty and impudent confession is the work a pioneer independent filmmaker whose adventures among the famous and the infamous extend from New York circles of the '30s to the avant-garde antics of San Francisco in the '60s and '70s."--BOOK JACKET. "Born a gleeful poet in a solemn family, James Broughton survived military school, Stanford University, the merchant marine and journalism before his passion for cinema and his dedication to poetry crystallized in 1948 with his first book and the first of his many films. In the '50s he worked in London and Paris; and for many years he occupied a special place in the San Francisco Bay Area as a performer, playwright and professor."--BOOK JACKET. "In the course of his lively odyssey Broughton shares intimate memories of Anais Nin, Alan Watts, Robert Duncan, Maya Deren, Jean Cocteau, W.H. Auden, Pauline Kael, Kenneth Rexroth, Robinson Jeffers, and the poets of the Beat Generation. Broughton has turned eighty but his writing is as sassy and agile as a young Pan's."--BOOK JACKET.