New York City or Dust

'A Small Boy & Others' Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
by Michael Moon (1998) Duke University Press. Durham & London 1998.
Written to explore the 'extraordinary creativity and originality of gay men's contributions to modern culture' (p1), Moon writes about film, novels, painting etc, and applies theories (his own & others) to them. At times the 'relations between word and image, linguistic and visual representation, seeing and speaking (or writing)'(p5) are discussed, and looks at images and character relations in David Lynch's Blue Velvet. With a historical, linear, comparitive approach, Moon keeps within a sociological framework, (and for my work) in how (homo)sexuality is created through image. Blue Velvet mentioned from pages 15 - 29.

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