{"product_id":"9781773050416","title":"Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling \u003ci\u003eMy Own Private Idaho\u003c\/i\u003e perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. \u003ci\u003eGentlemen of the Shade\u003c\/i\u003e 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, gender constructs, and social responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Own Private Idaho\u003c\/i\u003e — fragmented and saturated with colour and dirt and a painfully beautiful masculinity — also crept into popular media, and its influence can still be traced. R.E.M. Portlandia. Hipsterism. James Franco. Referencing the often-funny and sometimes-tragic cultural touchstones of the past 26 years, \u003ci\u003eGentlemen of the Shade\u003c\/i\u003e sets the film as social bellwether for the many outsiders who were looking to join the right, or any, revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300984439024,"sku":"9781773050416","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781773050416_p0.jpg?v=1763709398","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781773050416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}