{"product_id":"bike-boys-drag-queens-and-superstars-9780253329714","title":"Bike Boys Drag Queens and Superstars","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Avant-Garde and Mass Culture: Mapping the Dialectic\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The American Underground as a Cultural Formation: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The 1960s Underground as Political Postmodernism: From the New Sensibility to Cultural Activism\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Pop, Queer, or Fascist: The Ambiguity of Mass Culture in Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising (1963)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Drag, Rubble, and \"Secret Flix\": Jack Smith's Avant-Garde Against the Lucky-Landlord Empire\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Artist as Advertiser: Stardom, Style, and Commodification in Andy Warhol's Underground Films\u003cbr\u003eConclusions\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400673075543,"sku":"9780253329714","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bike-boys-drag-queens-and-superstars-9780253329714","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}