Bike boys, drag queens & superstars : avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema /

At the confluence of experimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Suárez 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...

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Главный автор: Suárez, Juan Antonio
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1996.
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Оглавление:
  • Avant-garde and mass culture: mapping the dialectic
  • The American underground as a cultural formation: practices, institutions, and ideologies
  • The 1960s underground as political postmodernism: from the new sensibility to gay cultural activism
  • Pop, queer, or fascist? The ambiguity of mass culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising
  • Drag, rubble, and "Secret Flix": Jack Smith's avant-garde against the lucky landlord empire
  • The artist as advertiser: stardom, style, and commodification in Andy Warhol's underground films.