Underground art became a target of Senate scrutiny after Flaming Creatures

Evidence

How did Jack Smith process the political tumult of 1968, which, among other things, brought Flaming Creatures to the attention of the United States Senate? Did he? Was No President—a title both blunt and ambiguous, suggesting the absence or negation of the state’s ultimate authority—a celebration of anarchy or a manifestation of an exhausted, even oppressive liberation? — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1369

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Senate’s attention to an underground film like Flaming Creatures (not a mainstream production) is a curiosity worth chasing — what hearing, who pushed it?