Lucas Hilderbrand
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596837 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Hilderbrand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilderbrand |
| SIGNATURE | HILDERBRAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3150-7317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The City Aroused
The Night is Still Young
On Nature Programming, the Anthropocene, and the Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
This response to Pooja Rangan’s book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary considers the ways nature programs such as Planet Earth and Our Planet make the natural world newly visible yet imagine wildlife and ecosystems almost entirely separate from human contact or intervention, despite concurrent discourses of the Anthropocene and climate crisis
The uncut version
Countering dominant historical narratives of the Hal Call-led Mattachine Society (a homophile organization dating from the 1950s) as ‘conservative’ or ‘respectable,’ this article examines the organization’s 1970s evolution into a porn theatre and sex club known as the Cinemattachine (later the Circle J Cinema). Arguing for continuities between the 1970s Cinemattachine and prior Mattachine tactics, Call’s own publishing business ventures, and disc…
Some of This Actually Happened
Some of this actually happened. So states the epigraph that opens David O. Russell's late 1970s period piece, American Hustle (2013). My attraction to this frank yet winking statement is that might be the most honest claim any historian can make. As a media scholar who has attempted to train himself as a historian, I am often skeptical of reading fictions as historical evidence. Yet as a 1970s enthusiast born mid-decade (the week The Rocky Horror…
“Luring Disco Dollies to a Life of Vice”: Queer Pop Music's Moment
A Suitcase Full of Vaseline, or Travels in the 1970s Gay World
A p h o t o o f A s o f t s i d e d s u i t c A s e , unzipped to reveal that it has been packed with nothing but small tubes of Vaseline, illustrated a summer 1969 feature article on travel tips for gay men in a new lifestyle magazine (fig. 1). The image appeared without a caption, suggesting the self-evidence of the visual joke that sex rather than sightseeing would be the activity on holiday. The writer advised: “It’s a wise gay guy who takes …
In the heat of the moment
In these brief notes, the author's aim is to situate Born in Flames historically, including within the history of feminist theory. His starting point for thinking through this film was the presumption that what it means now differs from what it meant in its own time. While that would be true of almost any text, it has seemed to the author that Born in Flames, as an incendiary text, is extraordinarily provocative in the very ways that make it now …
Sex Out of Sync
This essay draws from queer theory and sound studies in an analysis of two sexually explicit 1960s underground films that refused synchronization: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth (US, 1963), which is intended to be screened with a live radio sound track, and Andy Warhol's Couch (US, 1964), which is typically shown silently. These films are queer in that they present a series of erotic encounters that vary in gender, sexuality, and number; sign…
The Art of Distribution
An account of the rise of Video on Demand as a method of distribution for arthouse and independent films, focusing on the IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures companies, and charting the growing success of streaming video as opposed to DVD and theatrical releasing.
More Than One Way to Love”
Research Article| May 01 2008 “More Than One Way to Love”: On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly Kiki) Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 178–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; “More Than One Way to Love”: On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly …
Retroactivism
Research Article| April 01 2006 RETROACTIVISM Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 303–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; RETROACTIVISM. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12 (2): 303–317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager E…
Grainy Days and Mondays
Research Article| December 01 2004 Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics. …
Retroactivism
Research Article| April 01 2006 RETROACTIVISM Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 303–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; RETROACTIVISM. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12 (2): 303–317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager E…
A Suitcase Full of Vaseline, or Travels in the 1970s Gay World
A p h o t o o f A s o f t s i d e d s u i t c A s e , unzipped to reveal that it has been packed with nothing but small tubes of Vaseline, illustrated a summer 1969 feature article on travel tips for gay men in a new lifestyle magazine (fig. 1). The image appeared without a caption, suggesting the self-evidence of the visual joke that sex rather than sightseeing would be the activity on holiday. The writer advised: “It’s a wise gay guy who takes …
The Night is Still Young
Grainy Days and Mondays
Research Article| December 01 2004 Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics. …
On Nature Programming, the Anthropocene, and the Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
This response to Pooja Rangan’s book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary considers the ways nature programs such as Planet Earth and Our Planet make the natural world newly visible yet imagine wildlife and ecosystems almost entirely separate from human contact or intervention, despite concurrent discourses of the Anthropocene and climate crisis
Grainy Days and Mondays
Research Article| December 01 2004 Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (3 (57)): 57–91. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-19-3_57-57 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics. …
Retroactivism
Research Article| April 01 2006 RETROACTIVISM Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 303–317. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; RETROACTIVISM. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12 (2): 303–317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-303 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager E…
More Than One Way to Love”
Research Article| May 01 2008 “More Than One Way to Love”: On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly Kiki) Lucas Hilderbrand Lucas Hilderbrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (2008) 23 (1 (67)): 178–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-2007-031 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lucas Hilderbrand; “More Than One Way to Love”: On Kiki and Herb (but Mostly …
The Art of Distribution
An account of the rise of Video on Demand as a method of distribution for arthouse and independent films, focusing on the IFC Films and Magnolia Pictures companies, and charting the growing success of streaming video as opposed to DVD and theatrical releasing.
“Luring Disco Dollies to a Life of Vice”: Queer Pop Music's Moment
A Suitcase Full of Vaseline, or Travels in the 1970s Gay World
A p h o t o o f A s o f t s i d e d s u i t c A s e , unzipped to reveal that it has been packed with nothing but small tubes of Vaseline, illustrated a summer 1969 feature article on travel tips for gay men in a new lifestyle magazine (fig. 1). The image appeared without a caption, suggesting the self-evidence of the visual joke that sex rather than sightseeing would be the activity on holiday. The writer advised: “It’s a wise gay guy who takes …
In the heat of the moment
In these brief notes, the author's aim is to situate Born in Flames historically, including within the history of feminist theory. His starting point for thinking through this film was the presumption that what it means now differs from what it meant in its own time. While that would be true of almost any text, it has seemed to the author that Born in Flames, as an incendiary text, is extraordinarily provocative in the very ways that make it now …
Sex Out of Sync
This essay draws from queer theory and sound studies in an analysis of two sexually explicit 1960s underground films that refused synchronization: Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth (US, 1963), which is intended to be screened with a live radio sound track, and Andy Warhol's Couch (US, 1964), which is typically shown silently. These films are queer in that they present a series of erotic encounters that vary in gender, sexuality, and number; sign…
Some of This Actually Happened
Some of this actually happened. So states the epigraph that opens David O. Russell's late 1970s period piece, American Hustle (2013). My attraction to this frank yet winking statement is that might be the most honest claim any historian can make. As a media scholar who has attempted to train himself as a historian, I am often skeptical of reading fictions as historical evidence. Yet as a 1970s enthusiast born mid-decade (the week The Rocky Horror…
The uncut version
Countering dominant historical narratives of the Hal Call-led Mattachine Society (a homophile organization dating from the 1950s) as ‘conservative’ or ‘respectable,’ this article examines the organization’s 1970s evolution into a porn theatre and sex club known as the Cinemattachine (later the Circle J Cinema). Arguing for continuities between the 1970s Cinemattachine and prior Mattachine tactics, Call’s own publishing business ventures, and disc…
On Nature Programming, the Anthropocene, and the Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
This response to Pooja Rangan’s book Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary considers the ways nature programs such as Planet Earth and Our Planet make the natural world newly visible yet imagine wildlife and ecosystems almost entirely separate from human contact or intervention, despite concurrent discourses of the Anthropocene and climate crisis
The Night is Still Young
The City Aroused
Cinema and Media Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Art history (3 works)