Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Smiles of a Summer Night'

'Smiles of a Summer Night' (1955)

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After a decade of exile in the US

Flaming Creatures - Constantine Verevis (Cultographies) Action & Martial Arts 'Smiles of a Summer Night'Banned soon after its first midnight screenings, the prints seized and the organizers arrested, Jack Smiths incendiary Flaming Creatures (1963) quickly became a cause clbre of the New York underground. Tracing the films production and reception history, Constantine Verevis argues that it embodies a unique type of cinematic rewriting, one that combines Smiths multifaceted artistic work with exotic fragments drawn from the cinematic past.