Sean Griffin (ed.): Hetero

Queering Representations of Straightness. USA 2009, 270 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in this book uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire ... Weiterlesen

Simone Werle: Fashionista

Die Stilikonen eines Jahrhunderts. D 2009, 173 S., geb., € 30.79
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Mut zum eigenen, eventuell eigenwilligen Stil zeichnet sie aus. Bei ihnen ist Mode besonders lebendig. Da spielt es keine Rolle, ob's Richtung strahlend glamourös, gefährlich wild oder minimalistisch cool geht, Fashionistas liegen immer richtig im Trend. Genau genommen: kreieren sie ihn erst. Was Fashionistas heute tragen, wird morgen die Kleiderschränke erobern. Fashionistas würden nie einem Trend hinterherjagen. Die wichtigsten ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Davis, Gary Needham: Queer TV

Theories, Histories, Politics. UK/USA/CAN 2009, 190 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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Taylor and Francis
How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book: »theories and approaches«, »histories and genres«, and »television itself«. Individual essays examine the relationships between ... Weiterlesen

Artur Singer: 23 positive Jahre

Eine HIV-Story. D 2009, 135 S., geb., € 20.60
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Artur Singer - Wiener Szenenlegende - legt mit »23 positive Jahre« einen ersten Teil seiner Memoiren vor. Die intime Lebensbeichte über die Jahre als männerverschlingende Discoqueen verspricht er uns für einen späteren Zeitpunkt. Hier geht es ihm um sein Leben als HIV-Positiver und mit Aids. Mit Mitte vierzig ist er die Hälfte seines Lebens nun schon HIV-positiv. Der Tod war ... Weiterlesen

Burton Bernstein and Barbara B. Haws: Leonard Bernstein - American Original

How a Modern Renaissance Man Transformed Music and the World During His New York Philharmonic Years, 1943-1976. USA 2008, 223 pp. with numerous illustrations, hardback, € 25.95
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Harper Collins
One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of »On the Town«. Throughout the 1950s, his Broadway fame only grew with ... Weiterlesen

Keith Garebian: Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems

USA 2008, 109 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Signature
In »Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems«, Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, »Blue«, is a work without visuals except »International Klein Blue«, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop ... Weiterlesen

Samuel M. Steward: Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos

A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks. USA/UK 2008, 204 pp., brochure, € 64.95
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Routledge
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos! In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English - a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder - abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey). »Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos« tells ... Weiterlesen

Paul Trynka: Iggy Pop - Open up and Bleed

UK 2008, 450 pp. illustrated, Pb, € 13.95
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Little Brown
At the end of the 1960s, Jim Osterberg, a charming, hyperintelligent, ambitious boy from a Michigan trailer park, teamed up with two miscreant brothers to form the band »The Stooges«, single-handedly presaging the entire punk, new wave, metal, and alternative rock movements. His alter ego, Iggy Pop, perhaps the greatest rock front man and gender-bending sex icon ever, was exalted ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Clark Gable

Tormented Star. USA 2008, 287 pp., brochure, € 14.89
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Clarke Gable - the archetypal male of his era. He was named »King of Hollywood« in 1938. But as the author of this uncensored biography reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality. Bret recounts Gable's failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye toward his affairs with actors Earl ... Weiterlesen

Stefan Kanfer: Somebody

The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando. USA 2008, 352 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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For everything we know about Brando as a man as well as an actor and artist, he remains a fascination. What are we to make of someone whose life, both personal and professional, hit such dazzling highs and such abysmal lows? Born in Nebraska in 1924, Brando grew up unaffected by the Depression but scarred by a brutal father and ... Weiterlesen

Mickey Weems: The Fierce Tribe

Masculine Identity and Performance in the Circuit. USA 2008, 272 pp., hardback, € 30.99
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The author applies an overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. In a kind of ethnography the book documents the folk nature of popular culture. »The Circuit«, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events (gatherings, celebrations, communions, festivals). Music and dance drive a complex, shared performance at these events?electronic house music ... Weiterlesen

Amin Ghaziani: The Dividends of Dissent

USA 2008, 419 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and anti-war movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations took place there, and while these marches were some of the largest of their time, they have been sorely overlooked. Drawing on ... Weiterlesen

Ken Nielsen: Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Uk 2008, 136 pp., brochure, € 19.49
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»Angels in America« paved a new way for American theatre in its combination of heightened theatricality and politics. Tony Kushner has emerged as one of the American theatre's leading playwrights and productions worldwide have meant the play has become recognised as the most important American play in decades. With the scope of characters' sexual, class and religious affiliations in the ... Weiterlesen

Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett: POPism

Dt.v. Nikolaus G. Schneider. D 2008, 480 S., geb., € 30.63
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Schirmer/Mosel
32 Jahre jung avancierte Warhol über Nacht zum Künstlerheroen der westlichen Welt. Mit seinen Colaflaschen vollzog er den nahtlosen Übergang von Kommerz zu Kunst und rief damit die Pop Art ins Leben. Mit seinem Lebensstil warf er die herkömmlichen Vorstellungen von einer Künstlerexistenz über den Haufen. Aus der Bohème wurde plötzlich der Underground. In Warhols Factory gingen Malerei, Film, Fotografie, ... Weiterlesen

Rob Jovanovic: George Michael

UK 2008, 234 pp., brochure, € 10.95
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George Michael is an enigma. He may be one of the most open and vocal pop superstars on the planet, yet he is also fiercely protective of his privacy. From the formation of Wham! in 1981, he immediately found fame and fortune beyond his wildest dreams - outgrowing a dysfunctional family where his father openly proclaimed that George had no ... Weiterlesen