Flesh and excess
Subtitle: on underground film
By: Jack Sargeant
Edition: First edition, Amok Books edition.
Publisher: Amok Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781878923288
Subjects: History and criticism; Experimental films
Other titles: On underground film
Description: "In Flesh and Excess Jack Sargeant comprehensively examines the body-focused and transgressive films that first seduced him. Through films emerging from the No Wave and Industrial cultures to the VHS and zine-propelled explosion of underground film in the 1990s, Sargeant surgically reveals an underground film culture that remains radical and significant. By focusing on key works and ideas, Sargeant asserts the mandate for shocking bodily representations and interventions in cinema. Punctuating his film writing with philosophical analysis and explorations of areas as diverse as dissident surrealists, outlaw sexuality, Butoh dance, and medical fetishism, the book compels the reader to re-examine the very nature of the film experience"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Author name from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217) and discography (page [218]).
Table of contents: title: (Non-identical) repetition compulsion; title: Port of entry; title: Searching for the underground; title: Underground after underground/underground again; title: From ocular defilement to the unleashed desires of the shit children; title: Wounds, injuries and blood: opening the body; title: Heterogeneous excesses and total sex; title: Brain eraser: ecstatic annihilation; title: Emerging from thirty years of invisibility: towards a beginning of a timeline for three decades of underground film 1978-2008.