Andy Warhol: Blow Job

by Peter Gidal

Book Overview

A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and its cultural impact

In Andy Warhol's silent black-and-white movie, Blow Job (1964), a youth is filmed as he is apparently being given the sex act named in the title. The 35-minute film is accentuated by the paucity of expression on the actor's face: we see only his head and shoulders, rigidly framed so that all offscreen space has to be imagined, or avoided. Sometimes the young actor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846380413
• ISBN13: 9781846380419
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Afterall Books
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher