Secret Cinema: The Rise and Fall of the Blue Movie

Synopsis of Secret Cinema: The Rise and Fall of the Blue Movie

«Secret Cinema: The Rise and Fall of the Blue Movie» is John Baxter's chronicle of erotic cinema, in paperback (Sticking Place Books, English).

John Baxter, who lived in Los Angeles in the late eighties, reconstructs the clandestine history of erotic cinema: from the surrealists' interest, with Paul Éluard and Salvador Dalí, to its rise and fall. The book examines how Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel and Stanley Kubrick were drawn to that forbidden cinema and portrays its figures.

The work has 282 pages and was published on December 2, 2024.

Aimed at a general audience interested in film history and the lesser-known facets of art.