Trailers and clips from films and TV shows references in Sadie Bening's work:

Music video for Blondie's "Rapture"

Music video for Blondie's "Heart of Glass"

Beverly Hills 90210 theme (starring Luke Perry)

Erik Estrada on CHIPS

Trailer for Psycho (1960)

A clip from Way Down East (1920)

Trailers and clips for films and TV shows that are featured in TARNATION:

Here's a fairly complete list of references in the film: 
Pop culture references in Tarnation

"When We Grow Up": A number sung by Roberta Flack and Michael Jackson on the TV special Free To Be You and Me (1974)


"Little Bitty Pissant Country Place": Sung by Dolly Parton in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

Theme from the TV series Zoom (197?)

Trailer for Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Trailer for Andy Warhol's Flesh (1968)

Trailer for Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Trailer for Andy Warhol's Heat (1972)

Trailer for The Devil's Rain (1975)

Trailer for The Exorcist II: The Heretic (1978)

Trailer for The Wiz (1978)

"Ease on Down the Road" from The Wiz, sung by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson

Trailer for Phantasm (1979)

Trailer for Friday the 13th Part II (1981)

Trailer for Christiane F. (1981)

Trailer for Liquid Sky (1982) 

Fan trailer for Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)





Trailer for Blue Velvet (1986)


Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds commercial

Hi everybody,

Taking Kyle's good suggestion, let's use this blog to arrange for rides to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW on Saturday night.  We need to arrive at the theater at 11:40. 

Please post:
 1) If you need a ride, or if you can give a ride.
 2) Where you're leaving from. 
 3) How many people you have room for, if you can give a ride. 

You can also post your e-mail addresses, if you feel comfortable doing that.  If you'd like to contact each other, you can also always use the UCLA directory.  I'll make sure that everybody is accounted for on Thursday.

Ben

Two great videos about ACT UP

Hi everyone,

I hope you'll watch these videos which were posted to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP (one an independent documentary, one a clip from The Rachel Maddow Show).  ACT UP is an AIDS activist organization that has had major socio-political impact.  Vito Russo was a founder and proud member at the end of his life.  These videos will give you some extra background in preparation for Monday's screening of ZERO PATIENCE, a film that was highly influenced by ACT UP's political strategies.  They each include inspirational footage of ACT UP demonstrations.

http://www.bilerico.com/2012/04/rachel_maddow_commemorates_25th_anniversary_of_act.php

The songs from Andy Warhol's CAMP

It occurred to me that it might be useful for anybody who was interested in CAMP to have full versions of the songs that the film references (including the repetitious "piano music" with lyrics). 

Here are links:

In Crowd (the piano song), performed by The Mamas and the Papas

Let Me Entertain You, from the 2008 Broadway production of Gypsy


Let Me Entertain You, striptease version, performed in the (second) film version of Gypsy (1993)

You'll Never Get Away From Me, from the Original London Cast recording of Gypsy (1973)

Also, here is a montage of Confidential Magazine covers.  Confidential is the magazine that Jack Smith is ostentatiously reading at the end of the film.  It was one of the first nasty celebrity gossip magazines, and its covers and stories were notoriously lurid.  Kenneth Anger was influenced by Confidential in the writing of Hollywood Babylon, and no doubt stole stories from it.


Confidential Magazine montage

Examples of some things that Richard Describes as "camp":

Busby Berkeley musicals:
The Lady with the Tutti Frutti Hat, a number from the film The Gang's All Here (1943), starring Carmen Miranda.  Legendary camp!

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald:
Sweetheart, a number from the film Maytime (1937)

Marlene Dietrich:
Hot Voodoo, a number from the film Blonde Venus (1932)
Scenes from The Devil is a Woman (1935)

Little Richard:
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On performed on the TV show Shindig! (1964)
Good Golly Miss Molly music video

Sylvester:
Music video for You Make Me Feel Mighty Real (late 1970s)

John Wayne:
A campy appropriation of John Wayne from an installation exhibit

Some more examples of things that have been described as "camp":

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) trailer

Valley of the Dolls (1967) trailer: An outrageously campy trailer for an outrageously campy movie.

The protagonists in the 1970 film The Boys in the Band "camp about".

Mommie Dearest (1981) trailer

Divine sings You Think You're A Man in the late 1970s/early 1980s

The Village People sing Milkshake in their crazily campy film Can't Stop the Music (1980)

Trailer for Showgirls (1995), Paul Verhoeven's notoriously unsuccessful adaptation of All About Eve was re-claimed as a camp classic by some

Feel free to add your own favorite examples of "camp" in the comments section!

Some links to supplement today's class...

If you want to learn more about Kenneth Anger's harassment of Gloria Swanson, you must read this article.

I also recommend this excellent documentary on Jack Smith, which has remarkable audio and visual archival materials on Jack Smith, his films, and his performances.  It also does a great job covering the reception of Flaming Creatures.