Product Description: Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema...read more

Product Description: This exhaustive study focuses on the New York filmmakers that coalesced around the radical manifesto espoused by downtown filmmaker Nick Zedd: “none shall emerge unscathed.” Placing their work within the wider alternative film and downtown post-punk scenes, Deathtripping offers detailed analyses of the movement’s films alongside interviews with the filmmakers and their collaborators, including Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Tommy Turner, Beth B, Joe Coleman, and Lydia Lunch...read more

Product Description: A voyeuristic look at some of the most shocking and spectacular suicides of modern times by celebrities or those who achieved notoriety by the sheer nature, scale or political repercussions of their fatal actions. From singers Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis, to writer Ernest Hemingway, artist Mark Rothko, serial killer Fred West, Adolf Hitler and Yukio Mishima, this is a unique, illustrated catalogue of self-inflicted death...read more

Uncovers stories of police corruption from the United States and the world, following the good and bad officers' descent into murder and other deviant behavior.

Product Description: Visionary apocalyptic painter Joe Coleman explores in excruciating detail his fascination with the junctions between saint and sinner, sacred and profane, holy and horrifying, as shown in this book's full-color plates. Using a single-hair brush and jeweler's magnifying lenses, Coleman packs his canvases with hallucinatory detail...read more

Product Description: Looking back to the first high-profile plane hijackings, car bombings, kidnappings and assassinations of the 1960s and 1970s, this book is the first single volume to explore and contextualise the roots of modern terrorism. From the Baader-Meinhof gang of Germany, to the Red Army in Japan, the SLA and the Black Panthers of North America, Guns Death Terror covers all these groups and is illustrated with rare photographs and original terror manifestos, making it a timely and essential study of international terrorism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A chilling insight into cults and their leaders worldwide. From Charles Manson's 'family' of the late 1960s to the horrific Ten Commandments of God Killings in Uganda in March 2000, seemingly deluded and brainwashed followers of cults and their megalomaniac leaders have been responsible for many of history's most shocking killings...read more

Product Description: Contents include: Bondage Hippies - a forgotten fetish relic from the 70s. Nano-technology and mind-control. Cruising the Bay Area - buddy booths, male escorts and S&M dungeons. Fem2Fem lesbian stage musical. Weird smut - Are Led Zeppelin Faggots? Best Of videotapes and the Art of Porn Cinema...read more

Product Description: Deathtripping is an illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement. Includes: * A brief history of underground/ trash cinema * Seminal influences such as Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar * Interviews with key film-makers, such as Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Cassandra Start, Beth B, Tommy Turner, plus associates such as Joe Coleman, Lydia Lunch and Lung Leg...read more

Product Description: The road movie: a complex cinematic journey that incorporates mythic themes of questing and searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future, and yet also serves as a map of current cultural desires, dreams, and fears...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of illustrated essays on and by some of the most highly acclaimed figures in the global underground today. Suture documents radical artists, filmmakers, and writers working at the fringes of contemporary culture, including: Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, Romain Slocombe, Suehiro Maruo, John Hilcoat, James Havoc, Trevor Brown, Dame Darcy, Mark Hejnar...read more

Product Description: In 1958, garbageman Charlie Starkweather, accompanied by his jailbait sweetheart Caril Ann Fugate, embarked upon a killing spree which shocked America. Modelling himself on James Dean, Starkweather took teen rebellion to its logical and bloody conclusion, killing first Caril's disapproving father and then a succession of other victims before being apprehended and executed in the electric chair...read more

Product Description: Deathtripping is an illustrated history, account and critique of the "Cinema of Transgression", providing a long-overdue and comprehensive documentation of this essential modern sub-cultural movement. Includes: * A brief history of underground/ trash cinema * Seminal influences such as Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, George and Mike Kuchar * Interviews with key film-makers, such as Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Cassandra Start, Beth B, Tommy Turner, plus associates such as Joe Coleman, Lydia Lunch and Lung Leg...read more