Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 August 2024
- ISBN 9780197773802
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 241x155x22 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 B&W halftones 591
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Short description:
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.
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Often described as an art of abstraction and subjective introspection, experimental film is also invested in exploring daily objects and materials and in channeling, in the process, a peculiar perception of the modern everyday that this book calls queer materiality. Queer materiality designates the queer latency of modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors, and refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience.
This book 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. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, author Juan A. Suárez shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, amphetamine, film grain, and noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. Experimental Film and Queer Materiality is an inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world.
“Juan Suárez's new book on queer materiality in experimental film is fiercely original, thrillingly insightful and simply a great joy to read. Through a series of stunning readings and revelatory theoretical elaborations, Suárez makes a brilliant case for the myriad ways that sexuality is enmeshed in the object world of everyday life. He shows us how glitter, amphetamines, Ben-Day dots, brightly colored plastic and other materials of post-war consumer capital were essential elements of the sexual worlds presented by filmmakers like Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Marie Menken, the Kuchar
Brothers, and Andy Warhol. In so doing, Suárez makes a major contribution to queer theory and film studies.”
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction. Sexuality on the Outside: Experimental Cinema and Queer Materiality
2. Ruins, Magical Objects, Litter, and 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 Seventies Film and Performance
6. Film Grain, Discontinuous Representation, and the Queer Corporealities of Underground Cinema
7. The Afterlives of Film Grain: Precarious Bodies, Poor Images
8. Synthetic, Exotic, Magnetic: The Noise of Queer Experimental Film
