Trash

by Davies, Jon

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Title Statements

Full title :Trash / Jon Davies.

Summary

"Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's new film book series Queer Film Classics, delves into the legendary 1970 film that was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol." "The film Trash is a down-and-out domestic melodrama about a decidedly eccentric couple: Joe, an impotent junkie (played by Warhol film regular Joe Dallesandro), and Holly (played by trans Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn), Joe's feisty and sexually frustrated girlfriend. Joe is the hunky yet passive center around whom proud Holly orbits; while Morrissey intended to show that "there's no difference between a person using drugs and a piece of refuse," Woodlawn's incredible turn reverses his logic: she makes trash as precious as human beings." "Author Jon Davies argues that Trash, so comical yet so heartrending, is an allegory for the experiences of Dallesandro, Woodlawn, their co-stars, and countless other human "leftovers," whose self-fashioning for Warhol and Morrissey's gaze transformed them - if only fleetingly - from nobodies into somebodies."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Arsenal Pulp Press
Place of Publication:Vancouver
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:173 pages : : illustrations ; : 18 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781551522616, 1551522616
oclc:ocn424086273
LC Classification:PN1997.T667
Dewey Decimal:791.43/72

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Gay films -- History and criticism LGBTQ YA Morrissey, Paul Trash (Film cinématographique) Trash, 1970 Warhol, Andy Woodlawn, Holly