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Antônio M. da Silva, University of Kent, UK Abstract The Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues has developed a significant cinematic production that has attained international recognition. The three feature films he made in the first decade of the 2000s (Phantom,...
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Jonathan Kemp, Birkbeck College, University of London This paper locates the roots of contemporary patriarchal mainstream masculinity in late nineteenth century developments in body building and the emergence of beefcake photography. It identifies the ways in which...
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Taylor Cade West, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Abstract In the 1960’s some American homosexuals began to speak; they worked to establish a dialogue between themselves and a society from which they were excluded. Evangelical Christians first followed the...
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Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Abstract Through the years, the LGBT community has established a universal network of social relations for homosexual people, defying social, cultural and political borders. What is...
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Daniel J Sander, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Introduction Let me begin with an attention to my title, Queer Tableaux. I use the word tableau not only to gesture to the specific aesthetic strategy of the tableau vivant that I will discuss later, but...
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Joe Weinberg, University of Minnesota, Crookston Abstract LGBT studies is generally focused on the members of the queer community who are/were at some point ‘in the closet.’ That closet becomes a focal point of their identity, and the process of coming out...
