Flesh Cinema: The Corporeal Turn in American Avant-Garde Film explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits, this book demonstrates how experimental cinema not only transformed American visual culture, but also the lives of those who created it. By situating these films in relation to the civil rights and sexual liberation movements, Flesh Cinema investigates how social politics continue to inform their meaning. 

Transcurriendo en paralelo a las rupturas estéticas de las vanguardias artísticas de principios del siglo XX, el cine experimental investiga el potencial del medio cinematográfico a través de sus posibilidades formales y su trasfondo crítico. Estas prácticas fílmicas interrogan las imágenes y los sonidos tencológicos vindicando un espíritu autodidacta, narraciones atípicas, formulaciones abstractas y temporalidades inusitadas.

Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was among the most original creative forces in postwar American art and culture, yet his life and work re