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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Avant-Garde and Mass Culture: Mapping the Dialectic
Chapter 2. The American Underground as a Cultural Formation: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies
Chapter 3. The 1960s Underground as Political Postmodernism: From the New Sensibility to Cultural Activism
Chapter 4. Pop, Queer, or Fascist: The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963)
Chapter 5. Drag, Rubble, and "Secret Flix": Jack Smith's Avant-Garde Against the Lucky-Landlord Empire
Chapter 6: The Artist as Advertiser: Stardom, Style, and Commodification in Andy Warhol's Underground Films
Conclusions
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/03/1996
      ISBN13: 9780253329714, 978-0253329714
      ISBN10: 025332971X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Avant-Garde and Mass Culture: Mapping the Dialectic
      Chapter 2. The American Underground as a Cultural Formation: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies
      Chapter 3. The 1960s Underground as Political Postmodernism: From the New Sensibility to Cultural Activism
      Chapter 4. Pop, Queer, or Fascist: The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963)
      Chapter 5. Drag, Rubble, and "Secret Flix": Jack Smith's Avant-Garde Against the Lucky-Landlord Empire
      Chapter 6: The Artist as Advertiser: Stardom, Style, and Commodification in Andy Warhol's Underground Films
      Conclusions
      Filmography
      Bibliography
      Index

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