Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts...
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Author: Steven Ruszczycky
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Language: English
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Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Ruszczycky, Steven

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

€70,29

Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction

€70,29
Author: Steven Ruszczycky
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life.

Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is overdue for a book-length study of gay pornographic writing. Steven Ruszczycky delivers with an impressively researched work on the ways gay pornographic writing emerged as a distinct genre in the 1960s and went on to shape queer male subjectivity well into the new millennium.

​Ranging over four decades, Ruszczycky draws on a large archive of pulp novels and short fiction, lifestyle magazines and journals, reviews, editorial statements, and correspondence. He puts these materials in conversation with works by a number of contemporary writers, including William Carney, Dennis Cooper, Samuel Delany, John Rechy, and Matthew Stadler. While focused on the years 1966 to 2005, Vulgar Genres reveals that the history of gay pornographic writing during this period informs much of what has happened online over the past twenty years, from cruising to the production of digital pornographic texts. The result is a milestone in porn studies and an important contribution to the history of gay life.

Author: Steven Ruszczycky
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780226788753

About the Author
Steven Ruszczycky is assistant professor of English and teaches in Women's, Gender, and Queer Studies at California Polytechnic State University. He is coeditor, with T. Dean and D. Squires, of Porn Archives.

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