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Scorpio Rising represents the culmination of nearlytwenty 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 withyoung Americans on the beaches and under the boardwalk at Coney Island. Hestuffs his film-one of the first to feature an all rock'n'roll soundtrack - withthe 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 ofmaterials that includes Anger's pre-1963 works, feature films, pop music, andpopular cultural icons. The aim of this book is not so much to establishAnger's role as an auteur, but rather to place the film in the larger socialcontext 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 byLGBTQ people, made in eight different countries between 1950 and 2005, andwritten by leading LGBTQ film scholars and critics.

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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.

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