Images for a Generation Doomed (eBook)

The Films and Career of Gregg Araki

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (Autor)

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2009
140 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3999-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki provides an interpretive critical history of director Gregg Araki's career trajectory to date. In doing so, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart articulates the most noteworthy attributes of this New Queer Cinema pioneer's trademark post-punk filmmaking style as well as the unique challenges he faces during the third decade of his filmmaking career.

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Over the past two decades, independent director Gregg Araki has emerged as one of the most intriguing auteurs of contemporary U.S. cinema. A leading figure of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, Araki is known for his innovative, eye-opening, and at-times-controversial films aimed primarily at queer audiences. Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki explores the films and career trajectory to date of this New Queer Cinema pioneer. Offering in-depth analyses of films such as The Living End, Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, Nowhere, and Splendor, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart demonstrates how, over the course of the 1990s, the director's cinematic offerings became increasingly devoid of their early subversive potential. Hart goes on to argue that as the 1990s progressed, Araki's films were largely irrelevant to the cultural project of providing groundbreaking on-screen representations of non-heterosexual individuals living in the age of AIDS. However, Hart sees Mysterious Skin as evidence of Araki's successful attempt at reestablishing his cinematic and cultural relevancy in relation to the approaches and subject matter of contemporary queer cinema in the new millennium.

Autor

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart is associate professor and chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media at Texas Christian University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Chapter 1: Gregg Araki and the New Queer Cinema Chapter 2 Chapter 2: Queerly Making a Splash with The Living End Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Refining an Authorial Style with Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation Chapter 4 Chapter 4: Losing Focus with Nowhere and Splendor Chapter 5 Chapter 5: Reestablishing Relevancy with Mysterious Skin Chapter 6 Afterword: Smiley Face and Beyond Chapter 7 Supplementary Chapter: Cinematic Trash or Cultural Treasure? Conflicting Viewer Reactions to the Extremely Violent World of Bisexual Men in Gregg Araki's Heterosexual Movie The Doom Generation Chapter 8 Filmography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Film, Television, and Literature
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-3999-1 / 0739139991
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-3999-8 / 9780739139998