SADOMANIA
SINEMA DE SADE
JACK HUNTER (editor)

EXTREME ADULT FILM CULTURE
The Marquis de Sade (1740–1804) is perhaps the most extreme example of a writer whose actual life history has been inextricably confused with the events and characters depicted in his fiction, resulting in the popular perception of de Sade as some mythic personnification of sexual depravity, cruelty and evil. SADOMANIA investigates the zone where de Sade’s life, literature and legend most closely collide with cinema.

Featuring examinations of the films of directors such as Luis Buñuel, Jesus Franco, Joe D’Amato, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and covering genres from horror, sexploitation and hardcore porn to arthouse and underground, SADOMANIA covers a plethora of films that are partially or entirely based either on the writings of de Sade, or on de Sade’s life, or on some fictional notion of de Sade or his family.

Profusely illustrated throughout, SADOMANIA is an adults-only, comprehensive document of “Sadean” cinema that will inform and inflame devotees of erotic film and literature alike.

CONTENTS:

Introduction
ALL THE SINS OF SODOM
Jack Hunter

Chapter 1
BUNUEL: THE FIRST SADIST
Candice Black

Chapter 2
Part 1: FRANCO: PERVERSE BODIES, PROFANE TEXTS
Xavier Mendik

Part 2: “JUSTINE”: DE SADE CASTRATED
Jack Sargeant

Chapter 3
PASOLINI AND SADE: A MALEFICENT OBSESSION
Stephen Barber

Chapter 4
THE ART OF LOVE: SADE AND JOE D’AMATO
Xavier Mendik

Chapter 5
MATERIALITY, FLESH, TEXT: “QUILLS” AND “MARAT//SADE”
Patricia MacCormack

 

A STRICTLY LIMITED, NUMBERED HARDBACK EDITION
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PERSISTENCE OF VISION VOLUME 7

Size: 8.25 X 8.25 inches, 120 pages, over 150 photographs.

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