HarperCollins Publishers, 25 (290pp) ISBN 978-0-06-016700-4 Featured Nonfiction Reviews. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Although Landis's prose is not particularly energetic, his account of Anger's existence on, and cinematic exploration of, the fringes of modern culture is engrossing. Anger: An Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger Bill Landis. Discover Book Depositorys huge selection of Kenneth Anger books online. This study also offers a useful history of the underground film scene and of the occultist tradition, an important influence on Anger's work. Here is more down-and-dirty Tattletale Talk from Tinseltown. He gained fame and notoriety from the publication of the French version of Hollywood Babylon in Paris in 1959, a tell-all book of the scandals of Hollywoods rich and famous.

Anger's story is also of interest because of his collaborations with other countercultural luminaries: his provocative aesthetic has attracted the attention of, among others, avant-gardists Anais Nin and Marianne Faithfull, rock icons Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page and sexuality expert Alfred Kinsey. The all-new sequel to Kenneth Angers controversial, classic movie book, Hollywood Babylon. Kenneth Anger (born as Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer) is an American underground avant-garde film-maker and author. The portrait that emerges here is of an iconoclast whose personal relations are fraught with conflict but whose artistic vision has remained uncompromised. But Landis's claim to have arrived at a fairly accurate portrait of Anger is substantiated by meticulous research and detailed interviews with many of Anger's family and associates. The first edition of Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon, originally published in France 1959. He is also a recluse who has reinvented his life history at will, which makes him a difficult subject for a biography. Kenneth Anger is a former child movie actor who grew up to become one of Americas leading underground filmmakers. Creator of such cinematic cult classics as Scorpio Rising and Fireworks, and author of the eye-opening Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is one of America's most noted and innovative underground filmmakers.

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