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The Holy Mountain
Alessandra Santos
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Description for The Holy Mountain
Paperback. Series: Cultographies. Num Pages: 128 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 109. .
Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is - at the same time - an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and ... Read more
Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is - at the same time - an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cultographies
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231182317
SKU
V9780231182317
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About Alessandra Santos
Alessandra Santos is assistant professor at the University of British Columbia.
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