12 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Unmade, and The Sons of El Topo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. 1 Introduction: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky 1
6. 2 Two Tales of Transposed Heads: “La Cravate” and “Org” 23
7. 3 The Panic and/or Freak Aesthetic 32
8. 4 One of Us: Corpo-reality and the Disabled Body in the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky 40
9. 5 Prophets and Sinners in the 1970s Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky 57
10. 6 H. P. Blavatsky and Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and Theosophy on Psychomagic in El Topo and The Holy Mountain 73
11. 7 Dionysus Resuscitated: Alejandro Jodorowsky and the Aesthetics of Intoxication 92
12. 8 The Music in The Holy Mountain: A Jodorowskian Sound Machine 106
13. 9 Outlaw Artists and Esoteric Media: International Copyright and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Illicit Media Practice 123
14. 10 Resistance in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre 140
15. 11 Inherit and Repair: Self-erasure and Allegoric Montage in Jodorowsky’s The Caste of the Metabarons 158
16. 12 Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Unmade, and The Sons of El Topo 176
17. 13 Jodorowsky, Psychomagic, and Subjective Destitution 192
18. 14 Talmudist and Kabbalist Practices in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Psychomagic, a Healing Art 204
19. Index 222