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Grey Gardens

By: Matthew Tinkcom

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Grey Gardens (1975) is one of most important documentary films of the past thirty years, gaining the status of a cult classic. Matthew Tinkcom argues that the film reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838716017

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9781838716011

Working Like a Homosexual

Camp, Capital, Cinema

By: Matthew Tinkcom

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Working Like a Homosexual

Camp, Capital, Cinema

By: Matthew Tinkcom

What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, Working Like a Homosexual responds to these questions by arguing that post–World War II gay male subcultures have fostered their own ways not only of consuming mass culture but of producing it as well. With a special emphasis on the tensions between high and low forms of culture and between good and bad taste, Matthew Tinkcom offers a new vision of queer politics and aesthetics that is critically engaged with Marxist theories of capitalist production. He argues that camp—while embracing the cheap, the scorned, the gaudy, the tasteless, and what Warhol called “the leftovers” of artistic production—is a mode of intellectual production and a critical philosophy of modernity as much as it is an expression of a dissident sex/gender difference. From Minnelli’s musicals and the “everyday glamour” of Warhol’s films to Anger’s experimental films and Waters’s “trash aesthetic,” Tinkcom demonstrates how camp allowed these gay men to design their own relationship to labor and to history in a way that protected them from censure even as they struggled to forge a role for themselves within a system of “value” that failed to recognize them.

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Duke University Press

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0822383772

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9780822383772

Grey Gardens

By: Matthew Tinkcom

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Fan Cultures

By: Matthew Hills

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Fan Cultures

By: Matthew Hills

Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to X-Philes and Trekkers, Hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the Frankfurt School to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of new forms of fandom. Fan Cultures also explores the notion of "fan cults" or followings, considering how media fans perform the distinctions of 'cult' status.

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Routledge

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1134551983

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9781134551989

The Total Work of Art

From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

By: Matthew Wilson Smith

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The Total Work of Art

From Bayreuth to Cyberspace

By: Matthew Wilson Smith

This wide-ranging and topical survey incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. Beautifully illustrated, it pays particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance.

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1135867321

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Working Like a Homosexual

Camp, Capital, Cinema

By: Matthew Tinkcom

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Camp, Capital, Cinema

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Debussy Redux

The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture

By: Matthew Brown

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Debussy Redux

The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture

By: Matthew Brown

In a study that is both scholarly and highly entertaining, Matthew Brown explores pop culture's appropriations of Debussy's music in everything from '30s swing tunes, '40s movie scores, '50s lounge/exotica, '70s rock and animation, '80s action films, and Muzak. The book, however, is far more than a compendium of fascinating borrowings. The author uses these musical transfers to tackle some of the most fundamental aesthetic issues relevant to the music of all composers, not just Debussy." David Grayson -- Book jacket.

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Indiana University Press

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0253357160

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9780253357168

Bruce Lee

A Life

By: Matthew Polly

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Bruce Lee

A Life

By: Matthew Polly

The “definitive” (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon. Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery. Polly breaks down the myths surrounding Bruce Lee and argues that, contrary to popular belief, he was an ambitious actor who was obsessed with the martial arts—not a kung-fu guru who just so happened to make a couple of movies. This is an honest, revealing look at an impressive yet imperfect man whose personal story was even more entertaining and inspiring than any fictional role he played onscreen.

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Simon & Schuster

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1501187635

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9781501187636

The Greatest Toy Never Made

The Light S.A.B.I.R. Patent

By: J. Matthew Jacobson

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The Greatest Toy Never Made

The Light S.A.B.I.R. Patent

By: J. Matthew Jacobson

In this book, J. Matthew Jacobson unlocks the secret behind a technology that allows for an extending and retracting three-dimensional and daylight visible non-lethal beam of light, allowing for the creation of the world's greatest futuristic toys. Only available in print, by disseminating this technology, he not only disrupts the toy oligarchy, but puts his unrestricted technology in the hands of inventors everywhere. Book includes his original description and diagrams submitted during patent application. Now you can build the laser toys and cos-play accessories only witnessed on the silver screen!!

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0578482754

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Book's by Matthew Tinkcom

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

Working Like a Homosexual

Working Like a Homosexual

Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

Fan Cultures

Fan Cultures

The Total Work of Art

The Total Work of Art

Working Like a Homosexual

Working Like a Homosexual

Debussy Redux

Debussy Redux

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

The Greatest Toy Never Made

The Greatest Toy Never Made

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