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BIKE BOYS, DRAG QUEENS, AND SUPERSTARS
AVANT-GARDE, MASS CULTURE, AND GAY IDENTITIES IN THE 1960S UNDERGROUND CINEMA |
| By: |
Juan A. Suarez |
| Format: |
Book |
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£23.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
025332971X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253329714 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 March, 1996 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
At the confluence of experimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, the author discovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that "recycles" popular culture. He begins with the intellectual and institutional history, and the cultural politics, of American underground cinema. |
| Synopsis: |
This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s New York underground film fused `artistic innovation and the exploration of everyday life' and distinctively interacted with mass culture.'" -Choice... thoroughly researched [and] engaging text... " -Library JournalThis is a very timely and welcome book.... intervenes very effectively to rewrite the history of the 1960s American underground cinema." -UTS ReviewAt the confluence of experimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Suarez discovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that "recycles" popular culture. Filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol epitomize this sensibility, combining the influences of European avant-garde movements, comic books, rock 'n' roll, camp, film cults, drag performances, fashion, and urban street cultures. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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