Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
Juan A. Suárez
Published:
2024
Online ISBN:
9780197567029
Print ISBN:
9780197566992
Contents
- < Previous chapter
- Next chapter >
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
Juan A. Suárez
Chapter
Get access
Juan A. Suárez
Pages
91–115
-
Published:
May 2024
- Annotate
Cite Icon Cite
Cite
Suárez, Juan A., 'Crashing Bodies, Excrement, and Plastics: The Kuchar Brothers in the Sixties', Experimental Film and Queer Materiality (2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197566992.003.0004, accessed 10 June 2024.
Close
Search
Close
Search
Advanced Search
Search Menu
Abstract
This chapter characterizes the queerness of Mike and George Kuchar’s 1960s films as a materializing drive that reduces sexuality, desire, and the body to excrement. The chapter traces the origins of the Kuchars’ worldview in the popular culture of the 1950s; it explores the role of excrement in the iconography and syntax of their films; and it shows how the excremental is used to subvert the hygienic aspirations of the plastic modernity of their youth. Ubiquitous by mid-century, plastics were endowed with an aura of functionality and newness. In the Kuchars’ films, they range from the ornamental to the absurd to the degraded, excremental, and trashy. Plastic gadgets, synthetic fabrics, toys, knick-knacks, and figurines supplement, replace, or alter human bodies, prompt grotesque passions, and create fantastic environments that, while poised in counterpoint to normality, are still conjured out of the most ordinary of materials.
Keywords: George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, plastics, excremental aesthetics, underground film, 1960s experimental art, queer materiality
Subject
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality. Juan A. Suárez, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197566992.003.0004
You do not currently have access to this chapter.
Sign in
Get help with access
Personal account
- Sign in with email/username & password
- Get email alerts
- Save searches
- Purchase content
- Activate your purchase/trial code
- Add your ORCID iD
Sign in Register
Institutional access
- Sign in with a library card
- Sign in with username/password
- Recommend to your librarian
Sign in through your institution
Sign in through your institution
Institutional account management
Sign in as administrator
Get help with access
Institutional access
Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways:
IP based access
Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.
Sign in through your institution
Choose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Shibboleth/Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic.
- Click Sign in through your institution.
- Select your institution from the list provided, which will take you to your institution's website to sign in.
- When on the institution site, please use the credentials provided by your institution. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account.
- Following successful sign in, you will be returned to Oxford Academic.
If your institution is not listed or you cannot sign in to your institution’s website, please contact your librarian or administrator.
Sign in with a library card
Enter your library card number to sign in. If you cannot sign in, please contact your librarian.
Society Members
Society member access to a journal is achieved in one of the following ways:
Sign in through society site
Many societies offer single sign-on between the society website and Oxford Academic. If you see ‘Sign in through society site’ in the sign in pane within a journal:
- Click Sign in through society site.
- When on the society site, please use the credentials provided by that society. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account.
- Following successful sign in, you will be returned to Oxford Academic.
If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.
Sign in using a personal account
Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below.
Personal account
A personal account can be used to get email alerts, save searches, purchase content, and activate subscriptions.
Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members.
Viewing your signed in accounts
Click the account icon in the top right to:
- View your signed in personal account and access account management features.
- View the institutional accounts that are providing access.
Signed in but can't access content
Oxford Academic is home to a wide variety of products. The institutional subscription may not cover the content that you are trying to access. If you believe you should have access to that content, please contact your librarian.
Institutional account management
For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.
Purchase
Our books are available by subscription or purchase to libraries and institutions.
Purchasing information
Metrics
Metrics
Total Views 4
2 Pageviews
2 PDF Downloads
Since 5/1/2024
| Month: | Total Views: |
|---|---|
| May 2024 | 4 |
Citations
Powered by Dimensions
Altmetrics
More from Oxford Academic
Arts and Humanities
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
Literature
Books
Journals
