The Unauthorized Biography of

Kenneth Anger

Known worldwide for his best-selling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an underground filmmaker with tremendous influence. As the father and most highly regarded member of American cinema's avant-garde, Anger made three films now considered masterpieces: Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising. More than forty years later his aesthetic ripple is still being felt in contemporary mediums such as rock videos.

Beginning with Anger's life as a child actor in Hollywood, Bill Landis's biography takes the reader on a wild journey from the beginning of the underground film movement in the United States and Europe through the equally underground gay world of the '40s and '50s to the '60s in London and San Francisco, when Anger was at his peak of fame, and up to the present. It is a trip filled with drugs, sex, rock & roll, and more than the usual dose of occultism. On the way, we encounter characters as diverse as Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Anais Nin, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull, and Bobby Beausoleil, the Manson family member who was Anger's protege and a star of Lucifer Rising.

Bill Landis has done an amazing amount of research and shows that the history Kenneth Anger has created for himself is often at odds with the objective universe.

Hardcover with dust jacket

1995

First Edition

8 pages of Photographs

290 pages

$18.00
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