Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053450 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyle Frackman (0000-0002-3195-1728, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 142 |
| Pages | 93-109 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-9397072 |
| OpenAlex | W4205643049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
Like other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens' leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state in the form of increased access to equipment and supplies. Other scholarship has shown that sex was a locus of privacy and self-assertion in a society with a high degree of surveillance and state control. Focusing on a previously unanalyzed collection of erotic photographs of men, the article argues, first, that the support for amateur photography makes the state an unwitting participant in the creation and circulation of these illicit images and, second, that the images are an archive of queer men's self-presentation and critique in a context wherein their existence and affect are transgressive
Amateur · Art · Assertion · Context (archaeology) · Media studies · Photography · Pleasure · Political science · Pornography · Queer · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transgressive · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Computer Science · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Psychology
The Power of the Image
Shame and Love
Within Walls
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film
Jazz, Rock, and RebelsCold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany
Sex after Fascism
Buying Gay
In Defence of Totalitarianism Theory as a Tool of Historical Scholarship
The Sovietization of Eastern Europe
I’ll Show You Mine so You’ll Show Me Yours
The East German Film Coming Out (1989) as Melancholic Reflection and Hopeful Projection
From Private Photography to Mass Circulation
Traces of Dissent
Photography and Work
Visual Dangers and Delights
Glad to be Gay Behind the Wall
The Dick Pic
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |