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Kenneth Anger

American filmmaker
Also known as: Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer, Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer(Show More)
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Richard Pallardy received a B.A. in English from Illinois State University in 2005. He was a research editor with Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and worked on Britannica Blog from 2010...
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Kenneth Anger (born February 3, 1927, Santa Monica, California, U.S.—died May 11, 2023, Yucca Valley, California) was an American independent filmmaker known for pioneering the use of jump cuts and popular music soundtracks in his movies, which centre on transgressive homoerotic and occult subjects. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Anglemyer became interested in film at an early age. He claimed that his grandmother was a costume designer for silent films and that...

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