Halsted Plays Himself

by William E. Jones

The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur.

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 Los Angeles, a city at once rural and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584351071
• ISBN13: 9781584351078
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Semiotext(e)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher