Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger

320 Pages·1995·15.291 MB·English

by  Bill Landis

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Kenneth Anger
Filmmaker and Bestselling Author of HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
USA___$25.00
CANADA $35.00
nown worldwide for his bestselling Holly-
wood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an under-
ground filmmaker whose tremendous influence has
been acknowledged by directors as diverse as Steven
Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Dennis Hopper. 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 con-
temporary mediums such as rock videos.
Beginning with Anger’s life as a child actor in
Hollywood (he was featured in A Midsummer Night’s
Dream with Mickey Rooney), 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’s 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 murderer who was Anger’s protégé and a star
of Lucifer Rising.
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The Unauthorized Biography of
Kenneth Anger
BILL LANDIS
HarperCollinsPublishers
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FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Landis, Bill, 1959-
Anger : the unauthorized biography of Kenneth Anger / Bill Landis. —
Ist ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-06-016700-9
1. Anger, Kenneth. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—
United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN1998.3.A54L36 1995
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