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Jean Genet, the author noted for his celebrations of homosexuality and criminality was also fascinated with the possibilities in film. Genet made his only film, Un Chant d'Amour in 1950. The result was a peotic and sexually explicit paean to homosexual desire, the criminal impulse and the power of the imagination to transcend physical captivity. Criminal Desires contains complete documentation of the making of the film, a shot-by-shot description, thematic analyss and history of the film. The book also documents Genet's many other unfinished screenplays, film appearances by Genet and the adaptations of Genet's work by other directors including The Balcony, Deathwatch, The Paids, poison, Querelle.

Illustrated throughout and with an introduction by Genet biographer Edmund White, Criminal Desires is a compelling introduction to Genet's world of prisons, voyeurism and homo lust. Includes 80 photographs.