Hard to Imagine : Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall by Thomas Waugh - 1996

Hardcover in Used - Good condition. NO dustjacket.
Book has a slight corner bump, pages are clean and crisp.

Columbia University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is clean with a square, tight binding and bright, white pages. Book has minor wear on the edges that is difficult to see in the scans. The form and context of homoerotic representation in the West shifted radically after the 1960s, when gay identity and liberation became public issues in a broader climate of unprecedented sexual freedom. Yet for more than a hundred years before this earthquake in sexual politics, homoerotic photography and film had been a focus of gay male consciousness. Hard to Imagine is the first work to chronicle in detail the evolution of gay male erotic image culture, from the canonical works of "art" cinema and photography to the private and often highly explicit productions of amateurs. In this visual history of homoerotic image-making in its first century, Thomas Waugh brings together nearly four hundred photographs and film stills, from archives and personal collections in Europe and North America.… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. 470pp. Black and white illustrations. Slight edgewear else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning and edgewear.

US: Columbia University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and square. Binding is tight. Text block is clean. DJ has faint scuffing to spine along with a 4" long light crease to top left corner of jacket. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.

Columbia University Press, 1996-04-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

COLUMBIA UNIV PR. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Columbia Univ Pr, 1996. Hardcover. New. 470 pages. 10.50x7.50x1.25 inches.