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  title info:
    title: Vulgar genres
    sub title: gay pornographic writing and contemporary fiction
  name:
    name part: Ruszczycky, Steven
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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, and shows that this literary fiction was both informed by gay pornographic writing and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. 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.
  table of contents: Introduction -- William Carney and the Leathermen : revaluing BDSM in the pornographic counterpublics of the 1970s -- Police cruisers : John Rechy and Samuel Steward take on the hot cop -- Samuel Delany, Scott O'Hara, and the counterpublic of sleazehounds : on the risks of public sex in AIDS-era pornography -- Boy problems : Boyd McDonald's Straight to hell, Matthew Stadler's Allan Stein, and the becoming historical of intergenerational intimacy -- Conclusion. Going online : Dennis Cooper and the piglets.
  note: Steven Ruszczycky.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Gay pornography
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Gay pornography
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Homosexuality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Pornography in literature
  classification: PS228.G38 R87 2021
  classification: 810.9/3538086642
  identifier: 9780226788616
  identifier: 022678861X
  identifier: 9780226788753
  identifier: 022678875X
  identifier: 9780226788890
  identifier: 2021016875
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210413
    record change date: 20220502203407.1
    record identifier: in00004561695