by Kenneth Anger · Tristram Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782367190112
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«Hollywood Babylone» is Kenneth Anger's essay on Hollywood scandals, published by Tristram Editions in paperback (306 pages, in French).
The book gathers anecdotes and reports on the dark side of classic Hollywood: scandals, secrets and tragedies of its stars. Anger depicts the American film industry as a dream factory with excesses and double standards, and the work is considered a precursor of the «people» or «trash» approach to celebrity.
Cult work, originally published in 1959 as «Hollywood Babylon». The 2013 French edition is a translation by Gwilym Tonnerre and opens the Hollywood Babylon series.
For those interested in film history, popular culture and the hidden face of stardom in Hollywood.
Kenneth Anger was an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and writer. Working exclusively in short films, he produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the "Magick Lantern Cycle". Anger's films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle". He has been called "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers", with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. Anger also explored occult themes in many of his films; he was fascinated by the English occultist Aleister Crowley and an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.
