Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars - 9780253329714

Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and SuperstarsAvant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema\nAuthor(s): Juan A. Suarez\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253329714, 978-0253329714\nSynopsis\n\""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\n \"" . . . thoroughly researched [and] engaging text . . . \"" Library Journal\n \""This is a very timely and welcome book. . . . intervenes very effectively to rewrite the history of the 1960s American underground cinema.\"" UTS Review\n At the confluence of experimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Surez discovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that \""recycles\"" popular culture. Filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol epitomize this s.