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Hard to Imagine
Waugh identifies four primary aspects of homoerotic photography and film - the artistic, the commercial, the illicit, and the politico-scientific - tracing their development against a background of advances in visual technology. This comprehensive work explores a vast, eclectic tradition in its totality, analyzing the visual imagery in addition to its production, circulation, and consumption.
The Fruit Machine
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism, and over the next two decades solidified his reputation as one of the most important and influential gay film critics. The Fruit Machine—a collection of Waugh’s reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies—charts the emergence and maturation of Waugh’s critical sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to th...
Challenge for Change
An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
Romance of Transgression in Canada
The rich and contradictory history of Canadian cinema and video - queer, queered, and queering.
Montreal Main
Montreal Main, one of three QUEER FILM CLASSICS this fall, considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood ''the Main' and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film; a fascinating cinema vrit take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s, about a twenty something photographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and his growing obsession with Johnny, the young son of acquaintances, a relationship that is doomed from the start. Disarming in its matter-of-fact treatment of poten...
"Show Us Life"
An absorbing anthology...surveying some of the most exciting and exploratory films and filmmakers involved in the complex history of radical documentaries....Timely and significant. --THE INDEPENDENT In addition to providing a masterful introduction, Waugh begins each chapter with succinct, lucid comments....A valuable contribution to an understanding of documentary film and the rhetoric of social change. --QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH
The Right to Play Oneself
Discussions of “committed” documentary by a “committed” historian of film.
The Perils of Pedagogy
The first book to examine the works of controversial film and video-maker, queer activist, and agent provocateur, John Greyson.
