{"product_id":"flowers-of-perversion-volume-2-the-delirious-cinema-of-jesus-franco","title":"Flowers of Perversion, Volume 2: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jes s \"Jess\" Franco, director of such films as \u003ci\u003eVampyros Lesbos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLilian the Perverted Virgin.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eJes s \"Jess\" Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranco's taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as \u003ci\u003eNecronomicon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVampyros Lesbos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirgin Among the Living Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVenus in Furs\u003c\/i\u003e are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco's domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Thrower has devoted five years to examining each and every Franco film. This book--the second in a two-volume set--delves into the latter half of Franco's career, covering titles including \u003ci\u003eShining Sex\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarbed Wire Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSwedish Nympho Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLilian the Perverted Virgin\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssisted by the esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, Thrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnparalleled in scope and ambition, \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Perversion \u003c\/i\u003ebrings Franco's career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of Jess Franco's labyrinthine film universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen Thrower is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci\u003c\/i\u003e and the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents\u003c\/i\u003e. He is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative historians of exploitation and underground cinema writing today. Julian Grainger has written for \u003ci\u003eShock Xpress\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Sight and Sound, \u003c\/i\u003eand is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCannibal Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSavage Cinema of Ruggero Deodato\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Strange Attractor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557194502418,"sku":"9781907222603","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e06290e-51f4-410c-8379-b0d2f720432b.jpg?v=1731774595","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flowers-of-perversion-volume-2-the-delirious-cinema-of-jesus-franco","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}