Myth, Matter, Queerness: The Cinema of Willard Maas, Marie Menken, and the Gryphon Group, 1943–1969

Juan A. Suárez teaches at the University of Murcia, Spain, and is the author of Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars (Indiana University Press, 1996), Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday (University of Illinois Press, 2007), and Jim Jarmusch (University of Illinois Press, 2007). Recent essays in English include “Structural Cinema: Noise” in Still Moving, eds. Karen Beckman and Jean Ma (Duke University Press, 2008) and “The Puerto Rican Lower East Side and the Queer Underground,” Grey Room 32 (Summer 2008).