02484nam 2200493 450 991079659160332120200520144314.00-231-85108-110.7312/sant18231(CKB)3840000000329344(MiAaPQ)EBC5276084(DE-B1597)489400(OCoLC)1054868828(DE-B1597)9780231851084(Au-PeEL)EBL5276084(CaPaEBR)ebr11529602(OCoLC)1000397400(EXLCZ)99384000000032934420180424d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe holy mountain /Alessandra SantosLondon ;New York :Wallflower Press,2017.1 online resource (vii, 136 pages) illustrationsCultographies0-231-18231-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'But is this life reality? No. It's a film.' The Holy Mountain and Me -- 1. Enlightenment for Sale: Production, Promotion, Initial Reception -- 2. The Secret of Immortality: Afterlife -- 3. Sacred Excrement: Reading The Holy Mountain -- 4. 'Real life awaits us!': Placing The Holy Mountain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexAlejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo helped inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon. Its success spawned The Holy Mountain, through interventions by John Lennon and Allen Klein. After a scandalous release and a 16-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty years until its limited restored release in 2007. This short study reveals how The Holy Mountain, a poetic, hilarious, and anarchist cult film by an international auteur, anchored in post-1968 critiques, is - at the same time - an archaeological capsule of the counterculture movement, a timely subversion of mystical tenets, and one of the most mysterious films in the history of world cinema.Cultographies.Cult filmsCult films.791.43653Santos Alessandra1970-1534462MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910796591603321The holy mountain3782068UNINA