MURDEROUS PASSIONS:
The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco
by Stephen Thrower
Announcing the first in an ongoing series of reprints of
sought-after and out-of-print SAP titles.
We're now opening up pre-sales for a reprint of Murderous
Passions, Stephen Thrower's acclaimed study of Jess Franco's
early films.
The reprint will be identical to the out-of-print 2019 edition. This
is probably our most requested title, and copies are being offered for
outrageous prices on the used market, so we wanted to make it
widely available once more.
Due to the extremly high cost of printing this 512-page, full
colour volume, we need to pre-sell a certain number of copies before we can
go to press, so you won't receive a copy until we've reached this point.
We are, however, sure that copies will be available towards the end of the
year, and please also be aware that you can order with confidence, and
request a refund at any time until we have gone to press.
Note that we do still have a few copies of the
special edition of Volume 2, Flowers of Perversion,
available here.
All pre-sale copies will come with an illustrated bookplate signed by Stephen
Thrower.
Pre-order here
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MURDEROUS PASSIONS: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús
Franco
2022 Reprint
STEPHEN THROWER with Julian Grainger
Available 31 October 2022 (depending on pre-orders)
Jesús Franco was a fascinating, iconic gure in world cinema. 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.
His delirious spontaneity turned the raw basics of popular cinema – sex
and violence – into an avant-garde whirl of sensations. 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.
Films 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 e orts exude something strange and wild amid the chaos.
Meanwhile, multiple international variants turn the Franco lmography into a
dizzying hall of mirrors, entrancing for the a cionado but confusing for
beginners – until now.
Originally published in 2015, Murderous Passions delves into Franco’s
career from 1953 to 1974 (a second volume, Flowers of Perversion, covers 1975 to
2013). Assisted by esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, rower shines
a light into the darkest corners of the Franco lmography, uncovering a wealth of
new information. Unparalleled in scope and ambition, this revised and updated
edition of Murderous Passions contains eighty more pages of images, many in
colour.
Stephen Thrower is the acclaimed author of Flowers of Perverison,
Beyond Terror: the films of Lucio Fulci and the ground-breaking
Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents.