Flaming Creatures

The Transcendence of Transgression in Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures

by Scott Birdwise

“What Went Wrong?: The American Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1960s"

by Walter Metz

A book chapter in: The Sixties. Lead Author: Paul Monaco. The History of American Cinema Series. New York: Scribners and Sons, 2000. 231-260.

This chapter surveys the major works of 1960s American avant-garde cinema, ranging from the films of Andy Warhol and... more This chapter surveys the major works of 1960s American avant-garde cinema, ranging from the films of Andy Warhol and Stan Brakhage, to underground masterpieces such as Flaming Creatures (1963).