'Deathtripping is the first fully comprehensive account of the New York underground film movement, its prehistory, development and key players… There isn't any more anyone need know about Transgression after this. Deathtripping is the first and the last word on the subject.' - Headpress

'A long-overdue, exhaustively comprehensive documentation of the Cinema of Transgression. Massively illustrated with rare, sometimes hair-raising photographs…The book will appeal to casual toe-dippers and the hard-core cognoscenti. - Skin Two

Sargeant not only understands the mechanisms of the art world, he also knows the workings of the 'power of transgression'. He laces his essays with the ideas of theorists such as Foucault, Bataille, and Deleuze. In the process of conducting his interviews, Sargeant reveals that he is more eloquent and well versed than his subjects. Could this be further proof that intellectuals have a place in the underground after all?' - Your Flesh

'A reader-friendly work that is an impressive and exhaustively researched study of a fascinating chapter in the history of American cinema.' - Micro-Film

Growing out of the New York underground and the minds of a number of avant-garde, controversial film makers and artists, ‘The Cinema of Transgression’ (a confrontational style of film-making transgressing the boundaries of what’s acceptable) is here subjected to an in-depth exploration by top underground film writer, Jack Sargeant. Since first published in 1995, Deathtripping has become the bible of this rarely documented, yet essential, film genre.

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