Kylo-Patrick R. Hart is chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University, where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism and queer media studies. He is the founding co-editor of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and the author of several books about media.

Chapter 1: Gregg Araki and the New Queer Cinema Chapter 2: Queerly Making a Splash with The Living End Chapter 3: Refining an Authorial Style with Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation Chapter 4: Losing Focus with Nowhere and Splendor Chapter 5: Reestablishing Relevancy with Mysterious Skin Chapter 6 Afterword: Smiley Face and Beyond Chapter 7 Supplementary Chapter: Cinematic Trash or Cultural Treasure? Conflicting Viewer Reactions to the Extremely Violent World of Bisexual Men in Gregg Araki's "Heterosexual Movie" The Doom Generation Chapter 8 Filmography

Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki provides an interpretive critical history of director Gregg Araki's career trajectory to date. In doing so, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart articulates the most noteworthy attributes of this New Queer Cinema pioneer's trademark post-punk filmmaking style as well as the unique challenges he faces during the third decade of his filmmaking career.