Experimental film and queer materiality / Juan A. Suárez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suárez, Juan Antonio, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental films--History and criticism.

Experimental films.

Sexual minorities in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Experimental Film and Queer Materiality' studies a rich archive of queer material engagements in work by well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, and Jack Smith as well as under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Sexuality on the Outside: Experimental Film and Queer Materiality

2. Ruins, Magical Objects, Litter, Synthetics: The Queer Materials of Postwar Avant-​Garde Film

3. Amphetamine and Queer Materiality in Andy Warhol's Factory Films

4. Crashing Bodies, Excrement, and Plastics: The Kuchar Brothers in the Sixties

5. Glitter and Queer Embodiment in 1960s and 1970s Experimental Film and Performance

6. Film Grain, Discontinuous Representation, and the Queer Corporealities of Underground Cinema

7. The Afterlives of Film Grain: Precarious Bodies and Poor Images

8. Synthetic, Exotic, Magnetic: The Noise of Queer Experimental Film

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 2, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Suárez, Juan Antonio. Experimental film and queer materiality

ISBN:

0-19-756702-9

0-19-756700-2

OCLC:

1418754619