Gus Van Sant: His Own Private Cinema; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The Traveling Artist; 2. To Feature or Not to Feature: The Beat Gay Mentor and the Openly Gay Opus; 3. The Family Business; 4. A Miss and Two Hits; 5. Going Hollywood (Sort Of); 6. Antonioni Meets P. Adams Sitney vs. Kurt Cobain in Disguise While Paranoia Strikes Deep; 7. The Mayor of Castro Street; 8. Short Films, Work as a Producer, Music Videos, Feature Film Segments, and Future Projects; Conclusions; Filmography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.