TY - BOOK ID - 2709463 TI - A small boy and others : imitation and initiation in American culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol PY - 1998 SN - 0822321734 0822396025 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gay men in literature KW - Gays in popular culture KW - Hommes homosexuels dans la littérature KW - Homoseksualiteit in de film KW - Homoseksuele mannen in de literatuur KW - Homoseksuelen in volkscultuur KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures KW - Homosexualité dans le cinéma KW - Homosexuels dans la culture populaire KW - Culture in motion pictures. KW - Gay men in literature. KW - Gays in popular culture. KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures KW - Popular culture KW - Gay people in popular culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2709463 AB - 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. ER -