Title: A small boy and others
First published: 1998
Description: Summary:In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances, ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of "queerness." Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of queer invention
Subjects: Gays in popular culture, Homosexuality in motion pictures, Gay men in literature, Popular culture, Gays in literature, Culture in motion pictures, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Art, history, Dance, Theatre
People: Henry James (1843-1916), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
LC classification: HQ76.25 .M66 1998