Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho
Written by Jen Sookfong Lee
Narrated by Andrew Joseph Perez
()
About this audiobook
Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative 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. My Own Private Idaho ― fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity ― also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, Gentlemen of the Shade sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.
Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver's East Side, where she now lives with her husband. Her poetry, fiction, and articles have appeared in a variety of magazines, including The Antigonish Review, The Claremont Review, Horsefly, and Jasmine. A finalist for the Stephen Leacock Poetry Contest, she is a Knopf Canada New Face of Fiction for The End of East.
More audiobooks from Jen Sookfong Lee
The Conjoined: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Conjoined (Booktrack Edition): A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
Related to Gentlemen of the Shade
Titles in the series (8)
It Doesn't Suck: Showgirls Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWrapped in Plastic: Twin Peaks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElvis is King: Costello's My Aim is True Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNational Treasure: Nicolas Cage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Time of My Life: Dirty Dancing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related audiobooks
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElizabeth Taylor's Kiss and Other Brushes with Hollywood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThese Are Such Perfect Days: The Del Amitri Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How You Get Famous: Ten Years of Drag Madness in Brooklyn Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMeet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Legs Are the Last to Go Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Real Animal House: The Awesomely Depraved Saga of the Fraternity That Inspired the Movie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Sopranos Sessions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Wave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy Sinéad O'Connor Matters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thalia Book Club: Icon: Featuring Mary Gaitskill, Rick Moody & Jill Nelson in Conversation with Amy Scholder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rock & Roll Nightmares: True Stories, Volume 2: True Crime and Strange Stories About Rock Stars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHellboy: Oddest Jobs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Made Me Laugh: My Friend Nora Ephron Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dolls! Dolls! Dolls!: Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, the Most Beloved Bad Book and Movie of All Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jennifer Juniper Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Girl in a Band: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whatever It Takes: Life Lessons from Degrassi and Elsewhere in the World of Music and Television Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy (From the Creator of Laugh-In) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNight Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDiscovering Joye: Uncovering the Treasures Inside Ordinary People Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Life in the Purple Kingdom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Popular Culture & Media Studies For You
Freakonomics Rev Ed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 50th Law Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Age of Grievance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Do You Know Who I Am?: Battling Imposter Syndrome in Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Butts: A Backstory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Predictably Irrational Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Psychology of Zelda: Linking Our World to the Legend of Zelda Series Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Travelled Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Gentlemen of the Shade
0 ratings0 reviews