Trash: A Queer Film Classic

Trash: A Queer Film Classic

Jon Davies

Language: English

Pages: 192

ISBN: 1458780333

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Trash, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal's 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 some bodies.

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stands at knee-height, and Joe crashes on the floor next to her; Morrissey has thereby bisected the screen into “two different spiritual realms” according to Middleton (1989, 143). Joe is still recuperating from his misadventures in petitbourgeois petty thievery; Holly, however, is turned on by his 97 Queer Film ClassiCs figure 21. Holly’s sister, who became pregnant while stoned for two weeks, agrees to give the baby to Holly. DVD still. clean-shaven face and is eager to cheer him up despite

the political realities learned at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago … Trash was made at the end of a decade and in many ways mirrors the feeling of helplessness and anger at the loss of the new American dream … 23. Norman Mailer hyperbolically declared about the enclosed, claustrophobic 1965 Warhol film Kitchen, with its juxtaposition of people with appliances, furniture, and consumer goods, that, “I suspect that a hundred years from now people will look at Kitchen and say,

Series: Queer film classics PN1997.T73D38 2009 791.43’72 ISBN, digital edition: 978-1-55152-348-4 C2009-903732-7 To the Mentors, Idols, and Heroes: Dale Altrows, Daniel Barrow, Sadie Benning, Gregg Bordowitz, John Greyson, Veda Hille, Wayne Koestenbaum, George Kuchar, Deirdre Logue & Allyson Mitchell, Steve Reinke, Marc Siegel, Lisa Steele & Kim Tomczak, and Thomas Waugh. CONTENTS 8 | Acknowledgments 9 | Synopsis 11 | Credits 13 | Introduction: Trash is Truth 19 | One: Paul & Andy & Joe

Cleavage. 138 Trash meaning seemed mysterious, excessive, or oblique in relation to the codes most readily available to us, became a prime resource for survival. We needed for there to be sites where the meanings didn’t line up tidily with each other, and we learned to invest those sites with fascination and love. (1993, 3) This is a recurring conceptualization of queer childhood, as if the experience of shame that so often characterizes it— particularly in the postwar era—wipes any

University Press. [s.n.] “Trash star found in trash can.” 1970. Daily Variety. October 7. 169 INDEX Page numbers for photographs in boldface. Trash film character names in quotation marks and not inverted, e.g., “Joe Smith,” “Rich Girl.” Arcade, Penny, 155 Ast, Pat, 125 Darling, Candy, 51–52, 153 Douglas, Mary, 96 drag queens, 51, 148–50. See also hustlers drug use in Trash, 55, 59–60, 64–65, 81, 92 beer bottle scene, 99–102 Bike Boy (1967), 146–47 Blood for Dracula (1974), 23 Blow Job

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