U.S. homonationalist battle portraiture and queer armed archival artifacts

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ID12910065
AuthorsEvan Mitchell Schares (0000-0003-3163-6987, Villanova University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume14
Issue4
Pages335-350
Publication date2021-09-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-3065 • E-ISSN: 1751-3057
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17513057.2021.1970209
OpenAlexW3198581237
LanguageEN
References cited40

This article engages the photographic collection archived in Evan Bachner’s At Ease: Navy Men of World War II. I argue that this archive embodies myriad homonationalist intimacies through the reinforcement of historical images of White U.S. American queer-coded masculinity. I place its representations against a backdrop of global pornographic militarism, U.S. imperialism, and intimate Black refusal

Ancient history · Battle · Masculinity · Media studies · Militarism · Navy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · White (mutation · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

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