Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

UK 2018, 64 pp., pb., € 7.95
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Penguin UK
»The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.« - These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between »high« and »low« culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

Natalie M. Nobitz: History's Queer Stories

Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction. D 2018, 320 pp., brochure, € 41.11
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Critical analysis of the dramatization of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie M. Nobitz closes ... Weiterlesen

Darryl W. Bullock: David Bowie Made Me Gay

100 Years of LBGT Music. UK 2017, 372 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Bloomsbury
LGBT musicians have shaped the development of music over the last century, with a sexually progressive soundtrack in the background of the gay community's struggle for acceptance. LGBT messages are now brought to the forefront of popular music. This book covers the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the ... Weiterlesen

Louis-Georges Tin: The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

USA/UK 2012, 197 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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MIT Press
Heterosexuality is celebrated - in film and on TV, in pop songs and opera, in literature and on greeting cards - and at the same time taken for granted. It is the cultural and sexual norm by default. And yet, in premodern Europe heterosexuality was perceived as an alternative culture. The practice of heterosexuality may have been standard, but the ... Weiterlesen

Jack Halberstam: The Queer Art of Failure

USA/UK 2011, 212 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 49.95
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It's about finding alternatives - to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society, to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing, and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. The author proposes »low theory« as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Hammer: Hammer!

Making Movies out of Sex and Life. USA 2010, 281 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 27.95
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Feminist Press
»Hammer!« is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she ... Weiterlesen

Whitney Davis (ed.): Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History

USA/UK 1994, 308 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 79.95
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Routledge
Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. »Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History« presents examples of contemporary art historical research on homoeroticism and ... Weiterlesen