Gay Men and the Forms of Contemporary US Culture

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This book is about the literal and figurative place(s) of gay historical ambivalence in post 1960s U.S. cultural forms and formations.The author critically interrogates the various forms through which this ambivalence features in popular ...

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This book is about the literal and figurative place(s) of gay historical ambivalence in post 1960s U.S. cultural forms and formations.The author critically interrogates the various forms through which this ambivalence features in popular and everyday culture, language and thought, including: gay male video bars; jokes about AIDS; landmark post-social problem films from Philadelphia to Brokeback Mountain; male pornography across the transition from film to video to the internet, and from its early 1970s nationalisms into new international forms of production and distribution in the 1990s; and questions regarding the concept of the gay face.Products of the present are approached as forms of/from the past when the past is seen, through the presence of gay historical ambivalence, as both form and content. It attempts to revise methods for approaching the present as an archive of the past, and the past as an archive of the present, in the gay male U.S. case. Its ultimate goal is the invention of newer modes through which contemporary cultural forms can be dealt as material and immaterial cultural products wherever, whenever and however gay men might be concerned.The book provides a serious rethinking into notions of historical narrative and its relation to contemporary sexual cultures.

^ Richard C. Cante (2015). Gay Men and the Forms of Contemporary US Culture ISBN 9780754672302 (revised Oct 2015)