Halsted Plays Himself
$45.54
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
24 January 2023
Summary
Fred Halsted’s L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn’s first masterpiece—a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dali repeatedly muttering “new information for me.” Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted’s star waned in the 198…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901764 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635901766 |
| Author: | William E. Jones |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 24 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 178mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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About The Author
William E. Jones
William E. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film history at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has made two feature-length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), several short videos, including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), the feature-length documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), and many video installations. His films and videos were the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern, London, in 2005, and at Anthology Film Archives, New York, in 2010. He has worked in the adult video industry under the name Hudson Wilcox.
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