Franco’s taste for the kinky and horrific, his idiosyncratic visual style, and his lifelong obsession with the Marquis de Sade, birthed a whole new strain of erotica.įilms like Succubus, Vampyros Lesbos, A Virgin Among the Living Dead and The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein throw out the rulebook and reinvent genre cinema, while even his weakest efforts exude something strange and wild amid the chaos. His delirious spontaneity turned the raw basics of popular cinema – sex and violence – into an avant-garde whirl of sensations. A passionate believer in artistic and sexual freedom, he constantly tested the boundaries of taste and censorship during an extraordinary career spanning sixty years and more than 170 films. Jesús Franco was a fascinating, iconic gure in world cinema. Please note that no money will leave your account until the book is published.Īll pre-sale copies will come with an illustrated bookplate signed by Stephen Thrower. Please be aware that you can order with confidence, and request a refund at any time until we have gone to press. However, given the demand for the book, we’re confident that copies will be available towards the end of the year. Please note that we still have a few copies of the special edition of Volume 2, Flowers of Perversion, available here.ĭue to the high cost of printing this 512-page, full colour, volume, we will need to pre-sell a certain number of copies before we can go to press. This will be identical to the out-of-print 2019 edition. We are now opening up pre-sales for a new reprint of Stephen Thrower’s much sought after study of Jess Franco’s early films.
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