A small boy and others : imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol / by Michael Moon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moon, Michael.

Series:

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people in popular culture.

Gay men in literature.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Culture in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention.

Contents:

1. A Small Boy and Others: Sexual Disorientation in Henry James, Kenneth Anger, and David Lynch

2. Initiation into Style: In the Memory Palace of Henry James

3. Flaming Closets

4. Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood

5. Outlaw Sex and the "Search for America": Representing Male Prostitution and Perverse Desire in Sixties Film (My Hustler and Midnight Cowboy)

6. Oralia: Joseph Cornell, Hunger, Sweetness, and Women's Performances

7. Tragedy and Trash: Yiddish Theater and Queer Theater, Henry James, Charles Ludlam, Ethyl Eichelberger

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-192) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822321736

0822321734

9780822396024

0822396025

OCLC:

889873351