Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema

Author/Contributor(s):	Suarez, Juan A
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	03/22/1996
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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 Journal

This is a very timely and welcome book. . . . intervenes very effectively to rewrite the history of the 1960s American underground cinema. --UTS Review

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 European avant-garde movements, comic books, rock 'n' roll, camp, film cults, drag performances, fashion, and urban street cultures.