Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Scorpio Rising: A Queer Film Classic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) R. L. Cagle
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 127
Category/GenreFilm theory and criticism
ISBN/Barcode 9781551527611
ClassificationsDewey:791.43/72
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press
Imprint Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date 31 October 2019
Publication Country Canada

Description

Scorpio Rising represents the culmination of nearly twenty years' worth of Kenneth Anger's work on unfinished, lost, or destroyed projects: it resonates with the thrill and energy Anger discovered as he mingled with young Americans on the beaches and under the boardwalk at Coney Island. He stuffs his film-one of the first to feature an all rock'n'roll soundtrack - with the symbols of their generation - motorcycles, transistor radios, comic books, matinee idols - until it literally explodes onscreen. Cagle reads Anger's film intertextually, bringing together a corpus of materials that includes Anger's pre-1963 works, feature films, pop music, and popular cultural icons. The aim of this book is not so much to establish Anger's role as an auteur, but rather to place the film in the larger social context of articulating gay identity in ways that reflected both "gay" sensibility (camp) and contemporary popular media theories. Launched in 2009, Queer Film Classics has been a critically acclaimed film book series, publishing books on 19 of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people, made in eight different countries between 1950 and 2005, and written by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics.

Author Biography

R.L. Cagle writes about film and popular culture. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, and cineAction! and in such anthologies as Gendering the Nation, Seoul Searching, and Korean Horror Cinema