Freak Flag: Humour and the Photography of George Dureau

Chapters in this book

1. Contents i
2. (Re)presenting Masculinities: Introduction to Men’s Bodies 1
3. RE-POSING MEN
4. Masculinity and Muscularity: Dr Paul Richer and Modern Manhood 15
5. Kitsch and Classicism: The Male Nude in the Twentieth Century 42
6. Morimura/Duchamp: Image Recycling and Parody 52
7. Show Your Wounded Manliness: Promises of Salvation in the Work of Joseph Beuys 65
8. Tom’s Men: The Masculinization of Homosexuality and the Homosexualization of Masculinity at the end of the Twentieth Century 77
9. Freak Flag: Humour and the Photography of George Dureau 89
10. In Conversation: Photographer Ajamu and Cultural Critic Anita Naoko Pilgrim 107
11. What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men’s Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photograph 119
12. Fellas in Fully Frontal Frolics: Naked Men in For Women Magazine 134
13. Underexposed: Spectatorship and Pleasure in Men’s Underwear Advertising in the Twentieth Century 147
14. The Language of Bodybuilding 163
15. ‘Support our boys’: AIDS, Nationalism and the Male Body 175
16. A Genealogical Approach to Idealized Male Body Imagery 187
17. MOVING MEN: MASCULINITY AND THE MOVING IMAGE
18. Reclaiming the Corporeal: The Black Male Body and the ‘Racial’ Mountain in Looking for Langston 199
19. Exposing Himself: Sweet Sweetback’s Body 213
20. The W/hole and the Abject 222
21. Queer Masculinity: The Representation of John Paul Pitoc’s Body in Trick 232
22. Racing Forms and the Exhibition(ist) (Mis) Match 245
23. Mainstreaming the Money Shot: Reflections on the Representation of Ejaculation in Contemporary American Cinema 263
24. Homosexual Prototypes: Repetition and the Construction of the Generic in the Iconography of Gay Pornography 280