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- W336480890 abstract "Recombinant Self and Industrialized Celebrity in Super 8 1/2 If art still remains the closet, let's make pornography. Bryan Bruce(1) Somewhere along the line Bruce lost the ability to distinguish between movies and real life. Googie This is a story, my story. Bruce LaBruce The truth is that very few people care. reason is that the confusion of real life with `role' life is now a fixture of business and politics as much as entertainment.(2) Bruce LaBruce (invention, extension, subsidiary of Bryan Bruce, a reluctant intellectual and critic with a penchant for commodity theory, rebel sex, and 70's gay porn) has been central to Toronto's queercore scene for many years, producing the zine J.D.'s, making Super 8 films and generally testing the limits of attitude and fashion. Four years ago he achieved minor celebrity status in the international avant-garde underground set with his first no-budget feature film No Skin Off My Ass. In his new feature Super 8 1/2: A Cautionary Bio-Pic, LaBruce offers us his latest re-fashioning of self as Bruce LaBruce, fading porn star taken up and destroyed by post-modern critics, queer theorists and the exploitive lesbian art pornographer, Googie. Demonstrating an expert understanding of and ability to manipulate the mechanisms for producing fame, LaBruce demystifies and defiles the celebrity industry while mythologizing himself within it. Cognizant of and addicted to the massive doses of unreality we all require simply to function, he has carefully constructed a closed system of queer history, a highly circumscribed map of the collective homo unconscious, built from relentless quotations from queer art, entertainment, camp and porn history. narrative antecedents for Super 8 1/2 are well known, well worn and comfortable: mass market pseudo-celebrity bio paperback trash like Valley of the Dolls, Edie and A Low Life In High Heels. aesthetic approach is equally contained and referential, a nostalgic recreation of the 70's look of Andy Warhol and Fred Halstead films retrofitted with 80's punk fashions. Within this closed system of industrialized celebrity, LaBruce has assumed complete control of his only resource -- himself -- and inserted his own factitious history -- his true story -- into the factory of fame, offering both his real life and his role life as the raw materials for exploitation in his own nascent cottage industry version of the manufacturing of a star, the only thing to be in a totalized simulacrous world. His many selves offered up for processing include: director, performer, narcissist, meat, fashion victim, bitch, and finally crazed object of humiliation. But as pointed out in Googie's quote, Bruce has no ability to distinguish between movies and reality; consequently, the most industrially exploitable quality of his self is its porousness and promiscuity. In setting up a dynamic between a closed system of industrially produced consciousness and a porous self, LaBruce sets the ground for highlighting reality as an attribute of that dynamic. In this realm it is only authenticity, a lesser version of reality, which is, in fact a media product, that can be detected. greater the confusion and blurring of boundaries between self and system, reality and movies, the greater the need for signs of authenticity. LaBruce utilises celebrity itself as a strategy of authenticity, including cameos by real film or TV personalities like Scott Thompson, Richard Kern and Vaginal Creme Davis. But his most important signifier of authenticity by far is pornography -- hard core representations of cocksucking, ass fucking, piss drinking, fisting. Without the regular hardcore porn intervals, Super 8 1/2 would just be another embarrassingly kitsch fashion and attitude exercise. Of all of our industrially exploitable selves, the eroticized meat self is the most authentic, the most renewable and the most liberating. …" @default.
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- W336480890 title "Porn, Porosity and Promiscuity: The Recombinant Self and Industrialized Celebrity in Super 8 1/2" @default.
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