Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars

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

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

"This is a very timely and welcomebook.... intervenes very effectively to to rewrite the history of the 1960s Americanunderground cinema." -- UTS Review

At the confluence ofexperimental art and the gay subculture of early 1960s New York, Juan Su rezdiscovers a postmodern, gay-influenced aesthetic that "recycles" popularculture. Filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol epitomize thissensibility, combining the influences of European avant-garde movements, comicbooks, rock 'n' roll, camp, film cults, drag performances, fashion, and urban streetcultures.