Gentlemen of the Shade
Jen Sookfong Lee
Disponibilité:
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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.
Éditeur:
ECW Press
ECW Press
Protection:
Filigrane
Filigrane
Année de parution:
2017
2017
ISBN-13:
9781773050416
Description:
<p><b><i>Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative</b></i></p>
<p>Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling <i>My Own Private Idaho</i> perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. <i>Gentlemen of the Shade</i> examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.</p>
<p><i>My Own Private Idaho</i> — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity — also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, <i>Gentlemen of the Shade</i> sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.</p>
<p>Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling <i>My Own Private Idaho</i> perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. <i>Gentlemen of the Shade</i> examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.</p>
<p><i>My Own Private Idaho</i> — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity — also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, <i>Gentlemen of the Shade</i> sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.</p>