One-Handed Histories

The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography

John R Burger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

1995
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56024-860-6 (ISBN)

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Explore the titillating world of gay male video pornography in One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography. Author John Burger has compiled years of research on gay male films and videos and covers such interesting topics as:

gay male porn history and theory

pre-AIDS and post-AIDS awareness

the portrayal of safe sex in videos

popular memory

gay history

porn video productionBurger contends that gay male video pornography (GMVP) is “a warehouse of our cultural heritage and memory, as well as an important site for the production and modification of this heritage and memory.” He looks at gay porn from social and historical perspectives, using popular memory as the starting point. As a form of popular memory, gay porn allows for numerous revisions and re-writings of American history, which has somewhat excluded gay men. One-Handed Histories assists the reader in placing GMVP in its correct social and historical setting and thus removes much of its stigma as obscene or useless. Gay scholars and even gay porn consumers will enjoy the alternative readings of these films; readings which might instill an interest and pride in gay male history. General gay male readers will discover in One-Handed Histories gay male sexual trends from the late 60s on and how this gay male history is documented by pornography.

John R. Burger, MA, is Assistant Broadcast Producer with anadvertising agency in New York City. An avid fan of gay maleperformance genres, his reviews have appeared in Outweek andNewslink. Mr. Burger received his MA in Performance Studies fromNew York University.

Contents
Preface

“You Must Remember This”
A Brief History of the Homoerotic Image
Visions and Revisions
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Ob/Scene
Hot and Bothered: Eroto-Political Porn
Conclusion (aka--Cum Shot)
Appendixes
References
Suggested Reading
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.1.1995
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	375 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies
ISBN-10	1-56024-860-2 / 1560248602
ISBN-13	978-1-56024-860-6 / 9781560248606
Zustand	Neuware