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

by **Juan A. Suarez** (Author)

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

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

"This is a very timely and welcome book. . . . intervenes very effectively to rewrite the history of the 1960s American underground cinema." --UTS Review

At the confluence of experimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Suárez discovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that "recycles" popular culture. Filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol epitomize this sensibility, combining the influences of European avant-garde movements, comic books, rock 'n' roll, camp, film cults, drag performances, fashion, and urban street cultures.

### Author Biography

JUAN A. SUÁREZ is Assistant Professor of English at the Universidad de Murcia, Spain.

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.21 x 8.79 x 5.19 IN

**Publication Date:** March 22, 1996

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