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Hard to Imagine Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall

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ISBN-10: 0231099983

ISBN-13: 9780231099981

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas Waugh

List price: $85.00
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Spanning more than a century of photography and film, Hard to Imagine is the first visual chronicle of the evolution of gay male image culture, from the canonical works of "art" photography and cinema to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the aesthetics of the visual imagery, its production, circulation, and consumption, and broad social and legal implications.
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Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/12/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Thomas Waugh is the award-winning author or co-author of numerous books, including five for Arsenal Pulp Press: Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed, Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic (with Jason Garrison), Comin' At Ya! (with David L. Chapman) and Gay Art: A Historic Collection (with Felix Lance Falkon). His other books include Hard to Imagine, The Fruit Machine, and The Romance of Transgression. He teaches film studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he lives. He has published widely on political discourses and sexual representation in film and video, on lesbian and gay film and video, and has more recently undertaken interdisciplinary research and teaching on AIDS. He is also…    

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Beginnings
Reclaiming a Cultural Heritage
Nineteenth-Century Roots: The Emergence of Photography as the Privileged Medium for Gay Eroticism
Image Patterns That Keep Coming Up
Art and Arousal
Academic Photography
The Pictorialist Generation
The Glamour Generation
The Road to Stonewall
Strength and Stealth
The Physical Culture Movement of the Fin-de-Siecle
The German Frei Korper Kultur Movement
Pioneering North American Developments (1918-1945)
The Kinsey Generation: The Golden Age of Magazines and Mail Order (1945-1963)
The Movies
Coda: Chronology of Persecution, Censorship, and Resistance (1945-1969)
"(Oh Horror!) Those Filthy Photos": Illicit Photography and Film
"Partouze" Photography (1880-1930)
Stag Movies
The Modern Era of Illicit Photography
Gay-Centered Cinema (1930-1969)
Law, Science, and Politics
The Lens of the Law
Hirschfeld
Kinsey
Erotic Images and the Gay Movement
Endings
Notes
Bibliography
Index