Gentlemen Of The Shade: My Own Private Idaho

by Jen Sookfong Lee
Gentlemen Of The Shade: My Own Private Idaho
  • ISBN-13: 9781770413139
  • Author(s): Jen Sookfong Lee
  • Subject: Films, cinema
  • Publisher: Ecw Press
  • Imprint: Ecw Press
  • Publication Date: 15-06-2017
  • Format: p/b

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Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.
About the book

Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.

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