Thomas Waugh
| Thomas Waugh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1948 London, Ontario |
| Occupation | Academic, Author, Critic, Programmer, Activist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1970s-present |
| Notable works |
Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall |
Thomas Waugh is a Canadian critic, programmer, lecturer, author, actor, and activist,[1] best known for his extensive work on committed documentary and publications on eroticism in the history of LGBT cinema and art.[1] A professor at Concordia University,[2] he teaches in the department of film studies and holds a research chair in documentary film and sexual representation.
A graduate of Columbia University, he wrote film criticism and history articles for publications such as Jump Cut and The Body Politic before publishing his first book, Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary, in 1984.
His 1996 book, Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall, took 13 years to research and write.[3] Its release was delayed eight full months after its initial planned publication date, due to difficulty finding a printer willing to handle the book's sexually explicit homoerotic imagery.[4]
He is a two-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, garnering nominations in the Visual Arts category at the 15th Lambda Literary Awards in 2003 for Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall,[5] and at the 17th Lambda Literary Awards in 2005 for Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection.[6]
Waugh has also served on the board of Cinema Politica,[7] has been active with the Quebec Gay Archives,[8] and is coeditor with Matthew Hays of the Queer Film Classics series of monographs on LGBT film, published by Arsenal Pulp Press.[9] In 2013, Ryan Conrad, Thomas Waugh, and Cinema Politica raised funds on Indiegogo to produce and distribute a documentary film about the Russian LGBT organization Children-404.[10]
Works
- Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary (1984)
- Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall (1996)
- The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema (2000)
- Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall (2002)
- Lust Unearthed: Vintage Gay Graphics from the DuBek Collection (2004)
- The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas (2006)
- Gay Art: A Historic Collection (2006)
- Comin' At Ya! The Homoerotic 3-D Photographs of Denny Denfield (2007, with David L. Chapman)
- Montreal Main (2010, with Jason Garrison)
- Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada (2010, with Michael Baker and Ezra Winton)
- The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film (2011)
- The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson (2013, with Brenda Longfellow and Scott MacKenzie)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Daniel Allen Cox, "Naked Lunch: An interview with Thomas Waugh". Xtra!, January 5, 2010.
- ↑ "Filling the void of LGBT cultural amnesia; Concordia profs at the helm of book series revisiting 21 influential movies". Montreal Gazette, January 25, 2012.
- ↑ "Behind shocking gay photos, this is a serious study". Edmonton Journal, November 30, 1996.
- ↑ "Gay history fit to print: Book slated for sale by early November". The Globe and Mail, September 26, 1996.
- ↑ "15th Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation, July 9, 2003.
- ↑ "17th Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation, July 9, 2005.
- ↑ "Cinema should encourage debate". National Post, March 19, 2010.
- ↑ "Making things perfectly queer". Concordia News, March 1, 2013.
- ↑ "Queer Film Classics Film Book Series ed. by Thomas Waugh, Matthew Hays (review)". Journal of Film and Video (Volume 66, Number 2), Summer 2014. pp. 48-50.
- ↑ "Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds". Windy City Times, November 5, 2013.
External links
- Thomas Waugh faculty biography at Concordia University