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  • Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

    by Gilad Padva ...
    Series series Research in Sexualities
    Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen examines cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay, assessing performances that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic attitudes, but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced multidirectional identifications.The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the ideal context in which ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture

    by Gilad Padva ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture is a fascinating study of queer nostalgia in films, animation and music videos as means of empowerment, re-evaluating and recreating lost gay youth, coming to terms with one's sexual otherness and homoerotic desires, and creatively challenging homophobia, chauvinism, ageism and racism. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture

    Edited by Gilad Padva, Yair Koren-Maimon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism, this book vigorously questions and problematizes numerous artistic, aesthetic, technological, naïve, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Failure of Success

    Genealogy of “Success” and “Failure”

    by Bina Nir ...
    Success in modern Western society has become an object of aspiration for many, who construct their self-worth—and in many respects their very identity—according to accepted criteria of success, primarily in the professional and economic spheres. When the pursuit of success takes hold across all areas of life, many people find it difficult to live with failure or to acknowledge it.Where, then, did ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society

    Edited by Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, Gilad Padva ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
    Providing an inclusive, yet multi- layered perspective on leisure cultures in dynamic hegemonic, subcultural, and countercultural communities, this volume investigates the disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of leisure studies in the age of mass migration, nationalism, cultural wars, and conflicted societies in Israel.Israeli society has struggled with complicated geopolitical, ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

    Edited by Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of the boundaries between the representable and the non-representable, the real and the surreal, the visceral and the ideal, the ... Read more

    $102.49 CAD

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  • Sex, Art, and American Culture

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    by Camille Paglia ...
    A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Vamps & Tramps

    New Essays

    by Camille Paglia ...
    The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time. ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Porn Archives

    Edited by Tim Dean, Steven Ruszczycky, David Squires ...
    While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for millennia, pornography—as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical category—is a modern invention. The contributors to Porn Archives explore how the production and proliferation of pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and transmitting documents and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Beauty Unlimited

    by Gregory Velazco Trianosky, Noël Carroll ...
    "A feminist aesthetics text which bridges aesthetic theory, art and popular culture and acknowledges the evolving character of standards of beauty" ( Teaching Philosophy ).Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty, both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sex Radical Cinema

    by Carol Siegel ...
    In this provocative study of cinematic and televisual representations of "sex radicalism," Carol Siegel explores how representations of sexually explicit content on film have shaped American cultural visions of sex and sexual politics in the 21st century. Siegel distinguishes between a liberal approach to visual representations, which has over-emphasized normative equal opportunity while ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • If Memory Serves

    Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past

    by Christopher Castiglia, Christopher Reed ...
    The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed in this exploration of the struggle over gay memory that ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD