WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Durgnat was one of Britain's foremost writers on film. Among his books are Eros in the Cinema (1966)! Films and Feelings (1967)! Sexual Alienation in the Cinema (1972)! The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974) and Durgnat on Film (1976). Klappentext The starting point for Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit "WR - Mysteries of the Organism" (1971)! is Wilhelm Reich! the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Reich is a "intellectual maverick" and "sexual pioneer"! and theorist of "Orgone energy" and "world revolution". Loosely inspired by Reich's "The Function of the Orgasm" WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism! sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia! it is a film of ideas and sensations which speaks to the contemporary world. It was banned in Yugoslavia! under pressure from Moscow! as politically offensive. This book explores the film and how its spectators interact with it. Zusammenfassung In Dusan Makavejev's controversial and explicit WR - Mysteries of the Organism (1971)! 'WR' is Wilhelm Reich! the Marxist psychoanalyst who preached sexual enlightenment as a gateway to a better society. Reich is a 'intellectual maverick' and 'sexual pioneer'! and theorist of 'Orgone energy' and 'world revolution'. Loosely inspired by Reich's 'The Function of the Orgasm' WR stages an encounter between psychotherapy and Marxism! sexual permissiveness and socialism. Juxtaposing hippie America and cold war Yugoslavia! it is a film of ideas and sensations which speaks to the contemporary world. It was banned in Yugoslavia! under pressure from Moscow! as politically offensive. This book explores the film and how its spectators interact with it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Chronicle of an Exiled Socialist3. Production History4. Overture5. The Orgone Trail6. Back in the USA! or! Communismus Interruptus7. Yugoslavia: For and Against Fanaticism8. Appreciations9. Citizen Reich10. Understanding Undergrounds11. The Short Unhappy Life of Ex-YugoslaviaCreditsNotesBibliography ...

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Durgnat, Na Na
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780851707204
• ISBN: 978-0-85170-720-4
• No. of pages: 96
• Series: BFI Film Classics; BFI Modern Classics; BFI Film Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV