Times Square Strip: queer memories of New York and Jack Deveau’s Hand In Hand Films

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    Abstract

    This review essay considers how the edited volume Good Hot Stuff: The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau (2018) engages with critical discourses on queer history, the politics of preservation, and debates on public and private spheres through ethnohistorical modes of analysis linked to memory studies. By forwarding an argument in favour of new archival uses of pornography to explore subjects and disciplines beyond the history of sexuality, the methodological strengths of Good Hot Stuff lie in embracing the unreliable qualities of memory in order to demystify the Golden Age of Porn, offering porn studies scholars new ways to think about the past.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)270-279
    Number of pages10
    JournalPorn Studies
    Volume8
    Issue number3
    Early online date28 Jan 2021
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2021

    Keywords

    • Adult film history
    • Hand In Hand Films
    • Jack Deveau
    • new cinema history
    • queer studies

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