Research Catalog

Title

I confess! : constructing the sexual self in the internet age / edited by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo.

Publication

• Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Waugh, Thomas, 1948-
• Arroyo, Brandon, 1982-

Description

xxi, 602 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions--first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill--altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the internet and its cataclysmic cultural and social technological shifts have unleashed a third sexual revolution, crystallized in the acts and rituals of confession that are a staple of our twenty-first-century lives. In I Confess, a collection of thirty original essays, leading international scholars such as Ken Plummer, Susanna Paasonen, Tom Roach, and Shohini Ghosh explore the ideas of confession and sexuality in moving image arts and media, mostly in the Global North, over the last quarter century. Through self-referencing or autobiographical stories, testimonies, and performances, and through rigorously scrutinized case studies of "gay for pay," gaming, camming, YouTube uploads, and the films Tarnation and Nymph()maniac, the contributors describe a spectrum of identities, desires, and related representational practices. Together these desires and practices shape how we see, construct, and live our identities within this third sexual revolution, embodying both its ominous implications of surveillance and control and its utopian glimmers of community and liberation. Inspired by theorists from Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze to Gayle Rubin and José Esteban Muñoz, I Confess reflects an extraordinary, paradigm-shifting proliferation of first-person voices and imagery produced during the third sexual revolution, from the eve of the internet to today."--

Uniform Title

I confess! (2019)

Alternative Title

Constructing the sexual self in the internet age

Subject

• Internet users > Sexual behavior
• Sex customs
• Internet > Social aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Arts and society
• Online identities
• Self

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Contents

Foreword : Falling in love with Jonnie Ray: sixty years of telling sexual stories / Ken Plummer -- Introduction / Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo -- Part 1 : Scientia sexualis, Activism: The treachery of rape representation / Tal Kastner and Ummni Khan -- More than just selfies : #occupotty, affect, and confession as activism / Andie Shabbar -- Against authenticity : the feminist turn in N. Maxwell Lander's video work / Naomi De Szegheo-Lang with N. Maxwell Lander -- Blogging affects and others inheritances of feminist consciousness-raising / Ela Przybylo and Veronika Novoselova -- "Yes I'm Gay" : the mediality of coming out / Silke Jandl -- Author, subject, and audience: "Aren't you worried about what people might say? What people might do?" : Lady Gaga and the "heeling" of queer trauma / Jacob Evoy -- Letters to Nina Hartley : pornography, parrhesia, and sexual confessions / Ingrid Olson -- Femininities of excess : the cinematic confessions of Rituparno Ghosh / Shohini Ghosh -- The videomaker and the rent boy : gay-for-pay confessional in 101 Rent Boys and Broke Straight Boys TV / Nicholas De Villiers -- Confession : watching the masturbating boys (excerpts) / Intervals, an anonymous collective -- Part 2 : Ars Erotica, Pornographies : Life a prayer : confessing my beatific-cum-demonic visions of men (and God?) / Connor Steele -- Camming and erotic capital : the pornographic as an expression of neoliberalism / Éric Falardeau (translated by Jordan Arseneault) -- Confessions of a masked pornographer : reorienting gay male identity via bodily confession / Brandon Arroyo -- Sadean confessions in Virginie Despente's punk-porn-feminism / Valentina Denzel -- Fuck Yeah Levi Karter! and new authenticities / Daniel Laurin -- Circuitous pleasures, guilt, and pain : nymph()maniac and the pornographic hard code / Justine T. McLellan -- Porn fast / Shaka McGlotten -- Documentaries : "I confess : I was the firl in the shadows" / Rebecca Sullivan -- Queer auto-porn-art : genealogies, aesthetics, ethics, and desire / Thomas Waugh -- On not seeing all : The Incomplete, sexual play, and the ethics of the frame / Susanna Paasonen -- To queer things up : sexing the self in the queer documentary web series / Sarah E. S. Sinwell -- A man with a mother : Tarnation and the subject of confession / Damon R. Young -- Looking, stroking, and speaking : a queer ethics of MAP desire / Anonymous -- Playing confession : gaming, autobiography, and the elusive self / Stephen Charbonneau -- From a "disappeared aesthetics" to a "trans-aesthetics," and the elusive self / Milan Pribisic -- Writing intimacy : fantasy, new media, and confession in Marie Calloway's what purpose did I serve in your life / Eleanor Ty -- Hentai confessions : transgression and "sexual technologies of the self" in Akihiko Shiota's Moonlight Whispers / Ron S. Judy -- Porno-graphing : "dirtiness" and self-objectification / Annamaria Pinaka -- Shut me up in Grindr : anti-confessional discourse and sensual nonsense in MSM media / Tom Roach.

Call Number

JFE 20-3066

ISBN

• 0773559108
• 9780773559103
• 9780773559394
• 0773559396

OCLC

1096363385

Title

I confess! : constructing the sexual self in the internet age / edited by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic format.

Added Author

Waugh, Thomas, 1948- editor.

Arroyo, Brandon, 1982- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: I confess! Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 0228000645 9780228000648 (OCoLC)1105199061

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3066