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Hollywood Babylon ist ein Sachbuch des Avantgarde-Filmemachers Kenneth Anger, das angebliche wie belegbare Skandale aus der Filmindustrie in Hollywood von ihrem Bestehen bis in die er-Jahre detailliert abhandelt. Erstmals wurde es in. Hollywood Babylon ist ein Sachbuch des Avantgarde-Filmemachers Kenneth Anger, das angebliche wie belegbare Skandale aus der Filmindustrie in. Hollywood Babylon | Anger, Kenneth | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Geburtstag der Traumfabrik: „Kenneth Angers schamloser Blick hinter die Sperrholzkulissen Hollywoods“ (Der Spiegel). Kenneth Angers „Hollywood Babylon“, die. Hollywood Babylon (German edition) [Anger, Kenneth] on 112mobile.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hollywood Babylon (German edition). Hollywood Babylon [anger, kenneth] on 112mobile.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hollywood Babylon. Kurz und Bündig - Kenneth Anger: Hollywood Babylon. Erster und Zweiter Akt. Tom Cruise kommt nicht vor, man erfährt also nichts Neues über seinen.
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Charles Manson took too long in the bathroom, is all. I mean, really. Where is he getting all of these facts? There is no way that Fatty Arbuckle forced a genie to live in a coke bottle.
How does a big man fit into that tiny hole? He would kill them! I heard something different than the sordid tale of Stroheim's monocle blinding ladies on beaches into dropping their bikini tops.
Joan Crawford was the economist for the George W. Bush administration? Failed Hollywood starlets mounted the Hollywoodland sign in hopes that King Kong would either kill them or cast them as his next leading lady?
This book has more namedropping than Madonna's Vogue rap and is more apocolyptic than Deborah Harry's Rapture rap from her Blondie days.
My niece's great-great-great-great-great cousin twice removed married into a family that employed as a garderner the direct descendent of Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies did not sell his family jewels to pay off his debts after the stock market crash.
She merely sold some jewelry he gave her that didn't go with any of her furs. Who actually believes this shit? I heard that all of the stars from the silent era didn't sound like Danny Kaye before his voice broke, not this shit about the kissing disease and they all lost their voice en masse.
Don't believe everything you read. Trust my hairdresser that Kenneth Angers is laughing all the way to the bank as he'd believe these nice immigrant boys who harmlessly ran movie studios to bring joy to the public and employ Jayne Mansfield's prehistoric boob job.
Think of the trouble they'd get up to on their own! View all 33 comments. May 14, Andy rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: sleaze buffs.
Shelves: hollywoodbabylon. Many years ago I lived in the courtyard apartments Charlie Chaplin built for his crew across the street from his studio on La Brea Avenue.
I proceeded to have one of the worst nightmares of my life. When I awoke I practically jumped out of bed. I slept peacefully for the rest of the night.
View all 3 comments. Jun 10, Jesse rated it really liked it Shelves: classic-hollywood , cinema , my-film-books. I used to check this out regularly from my small-town public library back in middle and high school; I loved it because the library's innocuous cover meant my parents had no idea that I was reading something so to use their word sinful.
Needless to say, it was an eye-opening experience, raising my awareness of a number of different behaviors, coupling possibilities, creative use of inanimate objects, etc.
A copy now has pride of place on my bookshelf next to my other film books. In effect, you were utterly disposable, as someone more talented, more hungry, or more young was always waiting in the wings, resolute in wanting to take your place.
Jayne Mansfield wrecks her car and in the process the lives of herself and two others on June 29, This bleak reality was one Warner had long ago accepted.
He was not alone in this sentiment, it was an unspoken truth if ever there was one. It would take a couple of decades just as its influence was waning, perhaps unsurprisingly before old Hollywood in earnest turned a self-critical, unflinching gaze towards itself, through such films as Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful Finally, here was an acknowledgement, a mea culpa , yet simultaneously also a morbid, almost pathetic celebration of what Hollywood once was.
A longing for the "good old days", even though defining its goodness seemed quite the task for most.
At the very least, some disillusionment and rancour was bound to be mixed up with it. Or what about the absolute shock and horror elicited from the story about one of the giants of slapstick comedy Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle rumoured to have a gargantuan appendage and voracious appetite for women , in which one of his unfortunate sexual partners ending up fatally succumbing to a ruptured bladder and secondary peritonitis?
All this and much, much more is all here, in all its unvarnished smuttiness and grotesqueness. That last one should be a David Lynch film, seriously.
It would make for a fitting closer of his career. In the decades following its publication, more substantive and better researched works obviously have appeared, providing considerably less sensational accounts of the events described here.
But seriously, who would want only that kind of reportage? Instead it consciously chooses to nigh ecstatically revel in its tabloid style, and you can bet James Ellroy has taken quite a few pointers from this.
Hollywood, a continuous source of ambiguous and often violently contradictory feelings What Hollywood Babylon has on offer above all else, is rollicking fun for the perverse voyeur that resides within each and every one of us.
For whatever would we do without you, Hollywood? It's far too good a show to miss out on. Watch, we must. Out there. In the dark.
View all 25 comments. Nov 02, Tosh rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: film obsessives. It really doesn't matter if the stories here are true or not - and some people get upset about this.
But then they are missing the point. It's "Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. The mixture of images and Anger's text makes it into a feverish dream - and really, cinema should be a feverish dream.
If one does not have this in their library, they are not film lovers. Just tourists. View all 4 comments. Sucked me right down the gutters and dark alleys of the glittery and smutty Old Hollywood, so much so that I could barely stop to eat.
Some stories are amusing, some pathetic, some disgusting, some sad, but every single one grabbed my attention. Anger writes in a very nifty style and the amount of pictures just add the allure.
View all 5 comments. Mar 27, Sketchbook rated it liked it. Glorious garbage. Some of it true. What isn't true is even better. It begins in , a convenient place to begin a history of the scandals of Hollywood, though th Ulysses and Years of Solitude were killing me, so I just needed some well-written trash; something that I could actually FINISH.
It begins in , a convenient place to begin a history of the scandals of Hollywood, though the film business had already been around for almost a generation, and scandals and censorship battles had already become a part of it, as does anything touched by humans Hollywood itself officially started in - the evolution is more complex than that, but no matter.
Anger begins here to establish his theme, that of a phony Babylon, sex and violence amid plaster and Potemkin villages. Flush with cash and power and bloated ego from his monster hit "Birth of a Nation," the film industry's first official artiste, D.
Griffith, staged his filmic "Sun Play of the Ages," aka "Intolerance," the epic to end all epics, though what it most famously ended was his career - not instantly but put it into a death spiral as Griffith struggled to pay off the debts and restore his damaged reputation as a master of the universe.
The most famous images from "Intolerance" involve the massive set of Babylon, with giant columns topped by white elephants - every bit of that being perfect ironic, thematic fodder for Anger's book.
The "Intolerance" set sat weedy and decaying for years over the growing new Babylon, an eyesore and reminder of the quickly forgotten past in a place where you're only as good as your next picture.
As soon as the star system got rolling in the World War I era, and cash-heavy Hollywood began doling out massive star contracts, the sin had the fertilizer it needed to grow to scandalous proportions.
And hereafter, Anger's book becomes a litany of the notorious: the drug death of Wallace Reid, the rape and manslaughter trial of Fatty Arbuckle and so forth.
But interwoven into all the irresponsible rumor-mongering Anger throws in every speculation about who was fucking whom and probably makes up a few of his own is also a very perceptive history of Hollywood.
Anger was part of the scene, as a boy actor in the '40s, and he knows his shit. There's the touch of queenly snarkyness, but also -- as it was in Anger's homoerotic underground home movies -- a great affection and homage to the sad glamor of it all.
It probably helps to know the broader history of Hollywood to better appreciate some of the references made in this book. But no matter, Anger's book is breezily written; the book is a model of informational compression -- much crammed into nicely phrased sentences.
And of course it is effulgent of imagery, much of it disturbing and capturing the banal reality of death in a land of happy dreams.
The book's famous cover perfectly captures its attitude: the Hollywood glamor image self destructing before our eyes in Jayne Mansfield's overpainted face and saggy tits.
Oct 28, Paul Bryant rated it liked it Shelves: movies , verysleazyfun. It was good honest sleazy fun when it was published and stuff like being gay and doing drugs was rather scandalous, but I think the powder has worn right off its puff now.
A relic of more innocent times. View 2 comments. Mar 26, Philippe Malzieu rated it did not like it. It was a cult book. It was almost impossible to get it.
It was the quest for the Holy Grail.
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July 2, Either way its a poisonous fruit that this tree bares. Hollywood Babylon covers a tim Kenneth Anger paints a sinister, evil picture of a Hollywood that chews its "stars" up and spits them out.
Hollywood Babylon covers a time period from the s to the s so don't think that human catastrophes like Britney Spears or Anna Nicole Smith are anything but different versions of the same song.
Jan 18, Randolph rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction , non-fiction , crime. Bizarre mish mash of scandalous lies and truth about Hollywood from the silents to the '50s.
Fun read. Tame by today's standards when you think a former college and pro football star and actor can cut his wife's and her boyfriend's head off, lead police on a televised high speed chase, and get away with it.
Michael Jackson. Phil Hartmann. Phil Spector. And on and on. Aug 04, Nancy Loe rated it liked it Shelves: tinsels-hollywood.
Entertainingly awful, even if some of it has been debunked. Sep 06, Pamela W rated it did not like it. I'm embarrassed to admit this one.
I don't think you can review a book like this, really. It's like reviewing the National Enquirer magazine. It is what it is.
Shamelessly trashy; gives new meaning to the term "breathless prose. I can only imagine how lurid and fascinating this volume must have seemed in the days before the internet, when all of this info and more wasn't a mere Google search away.
Have to take a moment to commemorate here what's inscribed at the back of my ancient library edition -- somehow still in circulation!
Sep 23, Stephanie rated it really liked it Shelves: i-own-this-book , for-lovers-of-the-genre. Sex, drugs, murder, scandal, old movies and glamourous lives.
The story of Hollywood gossip and depravity begins at the turn of the century in this book - and continues through the excess of the 20s, through to the 60's, although most of the stories focus on the 20s to 40s.
Mickey Cohen actually existed, actors were perverse and hopheads. Murders and scandals were covere Sex, drugs, murder, scandal, old movies and glamourous lives.
Murders and scandals were covered up by studio heads and corrupt LA cops who destroyed evidence and let suspects leave the country. The writing isn't stellar and there is no deep or moral discussion, but the pictures of old hollywood are fantastic and the writer has a great knowledge of the film history of that era.
I know that whole novels fiction and nonfiction have been written on each chapter by other writers, digging through evidence and making educated theories, but here they all are in all their depravity - from the famous like Fatty Arbuckle's rape case and the murder of Johnny Stompanato by Lana Turner's daughter, to the mental breakdown of Frances Farmer, to the diaries of Mary Astor and the self destruction of so many actors and actresses who just did not survive the talkies and the depression and the fame.
A bit morbid, but the subjects are treated with much care by the author; today's tabloids do not give the same treatment to many of new hollywood's starlets.
Rabid, overheated, at times incoherent, this is a sleazy book that I felt a little bad for finishing and the ending of the book is the weakest, worst, most rushed part.
This look at the dark underbelly of Hollywood has few real revelations or surprises. In Anger's description of the rise of "Confidential" magazine and its hatchet stories he could be describing his own book: "His formula was simple: a well-known name, an unflattering photograph and a story, fairly short, which presented a sordi Rabid, overheated, at times incoherent, this is a sleazy book that I felt a little bad for finishing and the ending of the book is the weakest, worst, most rushed part.
In Anger's description of the rise of "Confidential" magazine and its hatchet stories he could be describing his own book: "His formula was simple: a well-known name, an unflattering photograph and a story, fairly short, which presented a sordid episode in a mocking humorous manner.
I guess I read this for the same reason one cranes one's head to see the details of a traffic accident. I'm gonna go wash up now. Jan 18, Patrick Kelly rated it liked it Shelves: stinkers.
Okay, so—admittedly—I went into this expecting a load of baloney. However, I also expected a fair amount of dark ish goings-on slapped across these pages.
For a man who was so close to Anton LaVey, I hoped for at least a few anecdotes of celebs in ill-lit robed circles, mumbling together in foreign tongues before disrobing and performing some fiendish acts.
I mean, c'mon Ken, this books panders to a very specific crowd, and without having a HUGE knowledge of stars from the silent era through '5 Okay, so—admittedly—I went into this expecting a load of baloney.
I mean, c'mon Ken, this books panders to a very specific crowd, and without having a HUGE knowledge of stars from the silent era through '50s, it'd be easy to get lost in the sea of names the author throws around.
I think I'll stick to what I know and love about Kenneth Anger: his bizarre and beautiful film work.
Jul 16, Maddy rated it liked it Shelves: , books-i-own-for-manoja. How myth and sacrifice work within celebrity celebrity as a new religion has been done.
Frances Farmer. I think about Frances Farmer everyday. Occupation: cocksucker. Is Hollywood cursed?
Why are these figures cursed? Look at J. Anton LaVey was thanked. Treating fact like it is fiction.
Jul 07, Nathaniel rated it it was ok. Salacious volume of Hollywood calumny, lovingly assembled by one of underground cinema's self-styled bad boys, and notable for its complete lack of compassion.
The chapters on Fatty Arbuckle and Thomas Ince are perhaps the most interesting because the stories have entered popular mythology. Most of the rest are merely prurient.
In sum, the book is no longer the "luscious plum of sizzling scandal" it once was, and Anger's tabloid naughtiness has dated badly.
Feb 21, Halley Sutton rated it really liked it. Misogynistic, racist, so over the top and yet fun. View all 8 comments.
Jun 19, Gabe Connor rated it it was amazing. I read the first edition copy from that was on shelves for 10 days only to be banned due to "libel" and "copyright issues" from those subjects portrayed in the book.
There's a difference: the version is packaged like that of a sleaze-gossip rag in 95 cent paperback form, versus the edition, which was published again after the ban was lifted, Anger having cleaned up some of his facts, embellished some of the fluidity and structure of the book, and laid out higher quality images int I read the first edition copy from that was on shelves for 10 days only to be banned due to "libel" and "copyright issues" from those subjects portrayed in the book.
There's a difference: the version is packaged like that of a sleaze-gossip rag in 95 cent paperback form, versus the edition, which was published again after the ban was lifted, Anger having cleaned up some of his facts, embellished some of the fluidity and structure of the book, and laid out higher quality images into a "coffee table" hardcover format.
I will read the "coffee table" edition someday, but for the time being this is satisfying enough, and truer to its form.
So it is only fair that I read this book as the unorganized, skeletal tabloid-based work than it is at the time written to save a bankrupt Kenneth Anger and quench the thirst of sleaze and pulp readers rather than in the coffee-table edition, meant for the collection of film-buffs of avant-garde interest, who bought the book because of its long-term underground appeal and transgressive, uncensored and unapologetic depiction of the machine that is Hollywood.
May 30, J. Hard to think of a more High End Brand, with it's U. Lots of Weegee-style flash photos of those brittle, hangovery moments when the limosine went off the cliff with the superstar in it Nothing to dwell on here but should be seen once.
Makes you wonder what after-midnite mysteries were covered up successfully Aug 06, Maureen rated it really liked it Recommends it for: everyone. Shelves: history , reference , scandal.
Impeccably researched and replete with many of the most revealing photographs you have never seen, Hollywood Babylon is part picture book and part compendium of low-down dirt on some of the most infamous Hollywood scandals from its beginnings to the s.
Chapter titles like, "The Clutching Hand," "Saturn Over Sunset," and "Peep Show Peccadilloes" titillate the reader, and their contents do n Impeccably researched and replete with many of the most revealing photographs you have never seen, Hollywood Babylon is part picture book and part compendium of low-down dirt on some of the most infamous Hollywood scandals from its beginnings to the s.
Kenneth Anger heard many of these stories as he was growing up in Hollywood, and in compiling them into this luscious book, he constructed a paean to the darker side of the movie business.
Aug 19, Sean Kottke rated it really liked it Shelves: adult-recreational , A dishy delight! This is all the stuff that was indignantly ignored during Dr.
Paul's History of American Film at U of M, but which would occasionally be alluded to in smart-alecky questions after lecture Didn't he marry a teenager?
Didn't she OD? Anger's prose is as lurid as the stories he relates, and it's Exhibit A in any argument over whether the hijinks of Hollywood celebrities are worse than ever today.
The only difference is many of the human trainwrecks detailed in this tome left behi A dishy delight! The only difference is many of the human trainwrecks detailed in this tome left behind some great art of much greater lasting significance while they were still on the rails than a number of today's tragedies.
The real villain in these stories is not a cabal of amoral creatives, but a system that deifies flawed humans, pushes a lifestyle of excess that magnifies those flaws into monstrosities, then sells it all back to us as cautionary tales We're all to blame, but that doesn't make the watching any less engrossing.
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