P&gt;Critical Vision collects together the best articles from the rare early issues of Headpress journal: long out-of-print collectors' items. Updated and revised-with the inclusion of new material-Critical Vision is at once a powerful, unique, and often shocking compendium. Includes:
The true story behind Mr Punch, the Sunset Strip Murders' and a possible grotesque miscarriage of justice, Hookers for Jesus, two decades of underground comic books, and incendiary, hitherto unpublished letters to porn magazines.

Critical Vision: The Best of Early Headpress

Reference

Critical Vision

Sex Murder Art is the definitive book on the controversial German director whose films Nekromantik (considered to be the most bootlegged video of all time), Nekromantik 2, Der Todesking and Schramm have earned him a reputation as one of the most original, innovative and dangerous of all modern filmmakers-banned the world over.Included are detailed analysis of the movies, Buttgereit's music-videos, extensive interviews, plus tribulations with the law, moral crusaders and Warner Brothers.

Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jrg Buttgereit

Kerekes, David

Literature & Fiction

Psychotropedia is a massive survey of publications that exist outside the mainstream, providing reviews (and ordering information) for a breath-taking cross-section of books, zines, and other media.
Learn about the skills no one wants you to have; get the inside stories on juror nullification, bestiality, and suppressed treatments for AIDS; and discover the work of taboo-shattering artists and writers. Psychotropedia covers hundreds of touchy and unorthodox topics. More importantly, it tells you exactly how to find out more for yourself.
Russ Kick is editor of You Are Being Lied To.

Psychotropedia: A Guide to Publications on the Periphery

Politics & Social Sciences

Kick, Russ

Social Sciences

"I am going because I would have no peace if I stayed." So said Donald Crowhurst as he set sail on what should have been a single-handed, non-stop, round-the-world boat voyage. In the middle of the Sargasso Sea, however, his boat falling to pieces, he had a brain-frying idea
When Chris Mikul first heard this curious tale, it inspired him to begin collating information and writing about other strange lives, eccentrics, and "beacons of shining if erratic brilliance in a world of sensible conformity". Bizarrism is the result.

Bizarrism: Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy

Mikul, Chris

Biographies & Memoirs

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Kerekes &amp; Slater's acclaimed Killing for Culture, See No Evil is an exhaustive and startling overview of Britain's video nasty' culture which chronicles the phenomenal rise of video technology, concern for the children', the clampdown of the Video Recordings Act (1984), and video's alleged associations with criminal activity.
See No Evil contains studies of film-induced' murder cases (Columbine and Michael Rambo' Ryan), interviews with the video underground' (bootleggers and dealers), plus detailed and insightful commentary on contentious movies in both Britain and the US.

See No Evil

Humor & Entertainment

Slater, David

Movies

With contributions from experts and cult film personalities worldwide-including Kenneth Anger and George Kuchar-Fleshpot -covers the sex education film, the secret history of American gay cinema, radical Japanese sci-fi porn, the British hardcore underground, and many other steamy subjects.
"Jack Stevenson is a brilliant filth scholar."-John Waters

Fleshpot: Cinema's Myth Makers & Taboo Breakers

Though never on the scale of its American counterpart, there was indeed a comics underground in Great Britain. Many of these comics were obscure limited print run productions and few were financially successful. But with subject matter that was anarchic and sexually unrestrained, this political pornography' did indeed have an impact-and invariably caught the wary eye of the law, resulting in several landmark Obscenity cases.
From their origins in the 1960s, Nasty Tales covers the turbulent history of these comics and the cultural instability from which they emerged.

Nasty Tales: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll & Violence in the British Underground (Primal-Spinal Comix History)

Huxley, David

Arts & Photography

Psychedelic Decadence: Sex, Drugs & Low-Art in Sixties & Seventies Britain

Jones, Martin

Andy Darlington has been interviewing Rock's luminaries and legends for several decades-spurred on as a child in the late-sixties by testosterone, the napalm that was Elvis and hopes to bed hippie chicks. I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-Child collects together his timeless and engaging conversations with a diverse selection of artists and band members, amongst whom are included: Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Country Joe McDonald, Grace Slick, Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, The Byrds, Can, The Kinks, Mott The Hoople, The Fall, Siouxie And The Banshees, The Stone Roses, and Skunk Anansie.

I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-Child: & Other Stories of Rock'n'Roll Excess

Darlington, Andrew

For Johannes Schnherr, no job is too small, no place too distant or unlikely that he cannot screen or hunt down obscure movies. From the bowels of New York and Punk clubs in San Francisco, to Pyongyang, North Korea, and Moscow on a fake visa, Schnherr is a cinaste on a mission: He is attacked by feminists; witness to the final gig of shock-rocker GG Allin; employee in the world's cheapest film-to-video transfer shop; and proprietor of a rat-house cinema.
Trashfilm Roadshows is a film book like no other.

Trashfilm Roadshows: Off the Beaten Track with Subversive Movies

Schnner, Johannes

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