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  • Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an underground filmmaker whose tremendous influence has been acknowledged by directors as diverse as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Dennis Hopper.
  • A biography of the cult filmmaker and author of the best-selling "Hollywood Babylon" books traces his role in the underground film movement.
  • The unauthorized biography of Kenneth Anger.

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    Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger

    Known worldwide for his bestselling Hollywood Babylon books, Kenneth Anger is an underground filmmaker whose tremendous influence has been acknowledged by directors as diverse as Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Dennis Hopper. As the father and most highly regarded member of American cinema's avant-garde, Anger made three films now considered masterpieces: Fireworks, Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising. More than forty years later his aesthetic ripple is still being felt in contemporary mediums such as rock videos. Beginning with Anger's life as a child actor in Hollywood (he was featured in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Mickey Rooney), Bill Landis's biography takes the reader on a wild journey from the beginning of the underground film movement in the United States and Europe through the equally underground gay world of the '40s and '50s to the '60s in London and San Francisco, when Anger was at his peak of fame, and up to the present.

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    Anger: The Unauthorized Biography of Kenneth Anger

    June 1, 2010
    Although best known for his sadistic artsy tabloid-like Hollywood history book "Hollywood Babylon," Kenneth Anger also happens to be one of the greatest auteur filmmakers America has ever produced. Inspired by filmmakers as diverse as French surrealist poet Jean Cocteau and Soviet montage propagandist Sergei Eisenstein, Kenneth Anger was able to create an auteur signature that has been known to hypnotize audiences. I know that he is one of my personal favorite directors. Mainstream directors like Martin Scorsese have openly admitted that Kenneth Anger was a huge influence on their own brand of filmmaking, yet Mr. Anger is far from a household name.

    Kenneth Anger also happened to be an Occultist who followed in the footsteps of Aleister Crowley, on top of being friends with Anton LaVey. Anger also happened to use Manson Family killer Bobby Beausoleil as an actor and songwriter for his films. Kenneth Anger also worked with Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and attempted a creative relationships with a very drugged out Jimmy Page. One ccould say that Kenneth Anger has managed to engulf himself in all the "Dark" areas of pop culture, but this comes as no surprise when finding out the personal details on Anger's angr