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Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of postmodernism, avant-garde, and pop culture, this collection of essays is the first to explore, analyze, appreciate, and celebrate the role of Warhol's queerness in the making and reception of his film and art. Ranging widely in approach and discipline, Pop Out demonstrates that to ignore Warhol's queerness is to miss what is most valuable, interesting, sexy, and political about his life and work.
Written from the perspectives of art history, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cinema studies, and social and literary theory, these essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. The homoerotic subjects, gay audiences, and queer contexts that fuel a certain fascination with Warhol are discussed, as well as Batman, Basquiat, and Valerie Solanas. Taken together, the essays in this collection depict Warhol's career as a practical social reflection on a wide range of institutions and discourses, including those, from the art world to mass culture, that have almost succeeded in sanitizing his work and his image.

Contributors . Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Marcie Frank, David E. James, Mandy Merck, Michael Moon, José Esteban Muñoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Brian Selsky, Sasha Torres, Simon Watney, Thomas Waugh

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Queer Andy
• I'll Be Your Mirror Stage: Andy Warhol in the Cultural Imaginary
• Cockteaser
• Screen Memories, or, Pop Comes from the Outside: Warhol and Queer Childhood
• Warhol Gives Good Face: Publicity and the Politics of Prosopopoeia
• Queer Performativity: Warhol's Shyness/Warhol's Whiteness
• Famous and Dandy Like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat
• "I Dream of Genius . . . "
• Tricks of the Trade: Pop Art/Pop Sex
• Popping Off Warhol: From the Gutter to the Underground and Beyond
• Figuring Out Andy Warhol
• The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This collection of essays analyzes Andy Warhol's unique contribution to the art world and to popular culture in general. Influenced strongly by the queer theory movement of the 1980s and 1990s, the essays interrogate Warhol's position as an icon for the pop art movement. Arguing that too many scholars have tried to "degay" Warhol, the editors try to reposition him as a queer artist and also to "remember the homoerotic subjects, the gay audiences, and the queer contexts that were crucial to the production and reception of pop." The diverse essays, which provide an engaging and thought-provoking inspection of Warhol's oeuvre, range in focus from Warhol's own life (Simon Watney's "Queer Andy") to more general essays on pop culture (e.g., Sasha Torres's article on the Batman television series as a pop phenomenon). For the most part the essays are intelligent and well-written, offering a much-needed new perspective on Warhol's life. Popout deserves a place in the library collection of all colleges and universities. S. A. Inness Miami University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jennifer Doyle is Assistant Professor of Engish at the University of California, Riverside.

Jonathan Flatley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

José Esteban Muñoz is Associate Professor in Performance Studies at New York University.