9780231099981
Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall
Thomas Waugh
ISBN 13: 9780231099981
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Hardcover
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Hard to Imagine is the first work to chronicle in detail the evolution of gay male erotic image culture, from the canonical works of "art" cinema and photography to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. In this visual history of homoerotic image-making in its first century, Thomas Waugh brings together nearly four hundred photographs and film stills, from archives and personal collections in Europe and North America. Waugh identifies four primary aspects of homoerotic photography and film - the artistic, the commercial, the illicit, and the politico-scientific - tracing their development against a background of advances in visual technology. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the visual imagery in addition to its production, circulation, and consumption. A pathbreaking examination of the interplay between gay film and photography, gay life, and the larger social and political world, Hard to Imagine is a model for social and cultural historians. Interweaving an analysis of these images in their gay cultural context with the broader social and legal implications, Thomas Waugh offers a pioneering chapter in both gay and visual history.
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"In this vast and valuable study, Waugh...has accumulated the most comprehensive study of gay erotic film and photography that will probably every be undertaken."
Library Journal
Review:"The compilation of these images in one volume by Thomas Waugh...must be lauded; finding them demanded an extraordinary level of research in archives and private collections throughout North America and Europe....This distinguished monograph illuminating a century of male erotica merits eyeballing."
Bob Speziale, Lambda Book Report
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Book Description: Columbia Univ Pr, 1996. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The history of gay male erotic images is largely undocumented. Even when the material has been available, "good taste" and "common decency"--those concepts used to stop all talk about sex--have prevented their display. Thomas Waugh's full-length, profusely illustrated study is a breakthrough book that has information and analysis enough for three books. Thoughtful, smart, and well-written, Hard to Imagine uncovers a visual history of gay male eroticism that few know. It chronicles the complicated history of homosexual desire and how it has been depicted and repressed. Bookseller Inventory # 037449 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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