Halsted Plays Himself, Expanded Edition

by William E Jones

The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur, in a new, updated, and expanded edition.

Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dal? repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635901766
• ISBN13: 9781635901764
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.2"