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

"This comprehensive, insightful study demonstrates that 1960s NewYork underground film fused 'artistic innovation and the exploration of everydaylife' and distinctively interacted with mass culture.'" --Choice

..". thoroughly researched [and] engaging text..." -- Library Journal

"This is a very timely and welcomebook.... intervenes very effectively to to rewrite the history of the 1960s Americanunderground cinema." -- UTS Review

At the confluence ofexperimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Su rezdiscovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that "recycles" popularculture. Filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol epitomize thissensibility, combining the influences of European avant-garde movements, comicbooks, rock 'n' roll, camp, film cults, drag performances, fashion, and urban streetcultures.