{"id":334,"date":"2020-09-21T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2021-04-13T04:42:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T04:42:10","slug":"gentlemen-of-the-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Gentlemen Of The Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Van Sant\u2019s 1991 indie darling&nbsp;<i>My Own Private Idaho<\/i>&nbsp;perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good.&nbsp;<i>Gentlemen of the Shade<\/i>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<p><i>My Own Private Idaho<\/i>&nbsp;\u2014 fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity \u2014 also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M.&nbsp;<em>Portlandia<\/em>. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years,&nbsp;<i>Gentlemen of the Shade&nbsp;<\/i>sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecwpress.com\/\">ECW Press<\/a>, June 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<form id=\"AddToCartForm\" action=\"https:\/\/ecwpress.com\/cart\/add\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"post\">\n<div class=\"selector-wrapper\">\u201cIn 1991, a story about two gay hustlers that worked as a meditation on class, sex, self-expression, loneliness, and masculinity became the unlikely inspiration for many to embrace their otherness. Jen has been doing the work to make sure that the best of Vancouver is louder than the worst. She is one of the very best.\u201d \u2014<em>Laineygossip<\/em><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<p>\u201cIf&nbsp;<em>My Own Private Idaho<\/em>&nbsp;seems quaint or conventional today, Lee argues, it\u2019s because the film\u2019s radical depiction of gender, sexuality and class instigated a new aesthetic category of the alternative. More than Gen X nostalgia, Lee is interested in how aesthetics influenced the choices of a generation. That should be of interest to us all.\u201d \u2014&nbsp;<em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLee perfectly captures the feeling of the pre-internet early 1990s and how&nbsp;<em>My Own Private Idaho&nbsp;<\/em>helped shape and define alternative culture, as well as influence the ideas and attitudes of a generation.\u201d \u2014&nbsp;<em>THIS Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gus Van Sant\u2019s 1991 indie darling&nbsp;My Own Private Idaho&nbsp;perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sookfong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}