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Halsted Plays Himself by William E Jones (2011, Semiotext(e))
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “light reading wear”
- ISBN
- 9781584351078
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Semiotexte/Smart Art
ISBN-10
1584351071
ISBN-13
9781584351078
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109229558
Product Key Features
Book Title
Halsted Plays Himself
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Lgbt, Film & Video
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Performing Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Semiotext (E) / Native Agents Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
35.6 Oz
Item Length
10.3 in
Item Width
7.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-276106
Reviews
[A] rich and rewarding excavation of a blazing moment in the early 1970s...[A] valuable installment in a recent, resurgent interest in queer documents from that flourishing social period, positioning Halsted's artistic legacy within a teeming moment of gay visibility., "As a project born out of the author's sincere admiration for his subject, Halsted Plays Himself amounts to a very passionate, if not sentimental, account. Jones not only attempts to symbolically revive Halsted in this elegy, but continuously constructs imaginary scenarios which could have resulted in him still being alive, better understood, or more accepted." -- Aliina Astrova , Kaleidoscope (blog), "As a project born out of the author's sincere admiration for his subject,Halsted Plays Himself amounts to a very passionate, if not sentimental, account. Jones not onlyattempts to symbolically revive Halsted in this elegy, but continuously constructs imaginaryscenarios which could have resulted in him still being alive, better understood, or moreaccepted." -- Aliina Astrova , Kaleidoscope (blog), "[A] rich and rewarding excavation of a blazing moment in the early 1970s...[A] valuable installment in a recent, resurgent interest in queer documents from that flourishing social period, positioning Halsted's artistic legacy within a teeming moment of gay visibility." -- Bradford Nordeen , Art in America, "[A] fascinating glimpse of a bygone gay culture whose aesthetic was far lesspolished, more earthy, and more dangerous than our current one, defined as it is by dollars anddigital media." -- Sam Biederman , Bookforum, "[A] rich and rewarding excavation of a blazing moment in the early 1970s...[A]valuable installment in a recent, resurgent interest in queer documents from that flourishing socialperiod, positioning Halsted's artistic legacy within a teeming moment of gay visibility." -- Bradford Nordeen , Art in America, [A] fascinating glimpse of a bygone gay culture whose aesthetic was far less polished, more earthy, and more dangerous than our current one, defined as it is by dollars and digital media., "[A] fascinating glimpse of a bygone gay culture whose aesthetic was far less polished, more earthy, and more dangerous than our current one, defined as it is by dollars and digital media." -- Sam Biederman , Bookforum, As a project born out of the author's sincere admiration for his subject, Halsted Plays Himself amounts to a very passionate, if not sentimental, account. Jones not only attempts to symbolically revive Halsted in this elegy, but continuously constructs imaginary scenarios which could have resulted in him still being alive, better understood, or more accepted.
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
861.2
Synopsis
The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur. Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dal repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted's star waned in the 1980s with the emergence of a more commercial gay-porn industry. After the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, lover, spouse (and tormentor) Joey Yale in 1986, Halsted committed suicide in 1989.In Halsted Plays Himself, acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halsted--to zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions. Jones assembles a narrative of a long-gone gay lifestyle and an extinct Hollywood underground, when independent films were still possible, and the boundary between experimental and pornographic was not yet established. The book also depicts what sexual liberation looked like at a volatile point in time--and what it looked like when it collapsed., The life, times, and mysteries of Fred Halsted, gay porn's first film auteur. Fred Halsted's L.A. Plays Itself (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. Although his cultural notoriety at one point equaled that of Kenneth Anger or Jack Smith, Halsted's star waned in the 1980s with the emergence of a more commercial gay-porn industry. After the death from AIDS of his long-time partner, lover, spouse (and tormentor) Joey Yale in 1986, Halsted committed suicide in 1989. In Halsted Plays Himself, acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halsted--to zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions. Jones assembles a narrative of a long-gone gay lifestyle and an extinct Hollywood underground, when independent films were still possible, and the boundary between experimental and pornographic was not yet established. The book also depicts what sexual liberation looked like at a volatile point in time--and what it looked like when it collapsed.
LC Classification Number
PN1998.3
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