Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho

by Jen Sookfong Lee

Gus Van Sant's film and the '90s cult of the alternative

Gus Van Sant's 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1770413138
• ISBN13: 9781770413139
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: ECW Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 7.0"