The invisible teenager: Comic book materiality and the amateur films of Don Glut

Authors

  • Matt Yockey University of Toledo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2014.0506

Keywords:

Affect, Amateur movies, Comic books

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

Matt Yockey, University of Toledo

Assistant professor, Department of Theatre and Film

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Published

2014-06-15

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Section

Praxis