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Images for a Generation Doomed
The Films and Career of Gregg Araki
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2009
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3997-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3999-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
133
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Gregg Araki and the New Queer Cinema No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 2: Queerly Making a Splash with The Living End No access Pages 13 - 32
Chapter 3: Refining an Authorial Style with Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation No access Pages 33 - 50
Chapter 4: Losing Focus with Nowhere and Splendor No access Pages 51 - 66
Chapter 5: Reestablishing Relevancy with Mysterious Skin No access Pages 67 - 82
Afterword: Smiley Face and Beyond No access Pages 83 - 90
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 No access Pages 91 - 106
Filmography No access Pages 107 - 110
Bibliography No access Pages 111 - 118
Index No access Pages 119 - 132
About the Author No access Pages 133 - 133
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