Gregg Araki
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Gregg Araki is a bisexual Asian-American film director who was described as being a part of the New Queer Cinema.
He has been criticized within the Asian American community for a lack of characters of color in many of his films.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television.
Filmography
- The Living End (1992, a darker, HIV+, Thelma & Louise)
- Totally Fucked Up (1993)
- the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy:
- The Doom Generation (1995)
- Nowhere (1997)
- Splendor (1999)
- Mysterious Skin (2004), dramatizing child sexual abuse
References
- Yutani, Kimberly. "Gregg Araki and the Queer New Wave." In Leong, Russell. Asian American Sexualities: dimensions of the gay & lesbian experience. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.
External link
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- Young, Beautiful, and F***ed: A conversation with Gregg Araki and other members of The Doom Generation (http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/15/araki.html)