Open Accessinvisible teenager: Comic book materiality and the amateur films of Don Glut
Author(s) -
Matt Yockey
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transformative works and cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1941-2258
DOI - 10.3983/twc.2014.0506
Subject(s) - comics , affection , amateur , art , materiality (auditing) , film director , visual arts , identity (music) , literature , aesthetics , movie theater , psychology , history , social psychology , archaeology
Don Glut, between the ages of 9 and 25, made 41 short amateur films inspired by horror, science fiction, and superhero movies, serials, and comic books. The tactile qualities of comic books as affect-generating objects are instrumental to how Glut confirmed his identity during a time (adolescence) in which that identity is particularly unstable. Glut used the popular figure of the teen rebel and his role as a filmmaker in order to negotiate with hegemonic restrictions on his objects of affection, especially comic books