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- Title
The Face in Flight: Andy Warhol's Henry Geldzahler.
- Authors
suárez, Juan A.
- Abstract
Existing analyses of Andy Warhol's Henry Geldzahler (1964) interpret it as a psychological portrait that reveals its subject's interiority. This article, by contrast, refutes such claims of psychological depth. Through a close analysis of the film's surface and of Geldzahler's performance, it reads the work in terms of parody, play with props and materials, and queer affect. It illuminates its peculiar nonpsychologizing portraiture through William James's theses about transitional mental states and the continuity of the psychic and the material. It concludes with a reconsideration of Warhol's film portraits in light of these ideas.
- Subjects
HENRY Geldzahler (Film); WARHOL, Andy, 1928-1987; PARODY; JAMES, William, 1842-1910; MOTION picture analysis
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 4, p112
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2019.0060