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24 titles for readers of Porn Archives by Tim Dean, selected for shared themes: Pornography, Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies, and Film.

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Gay Pornography Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity — John Mercer

Gay Pornography Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity

Themes: Pornography • Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out — Sean Griffin

Tinker Belles and Evil Queens The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

New Queer Cinema A Critical Reader — Michele Aaron

New Queer Cinema A Critical Reader

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

Images for a Generation Doomed The Films and Career of Gregg Araki — Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Images for a Generation Doomed The Films and Career of Gregg Araki

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

No Future Queer Theory and the Death Drive — Lee Edelman

No Future Queer Theory and the Death Drive

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

The Queer Art of Failure — Jack Halberstam

The Queer Art of Failure

Jack Halberstam

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

The Children’s Hour — Julia Erhart

The Children’s Hour

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

Screened Out Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall — Richard Barrios

Screened Out Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

Richard Barrios

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

Catalina The Vintage Years — []

Catalina The Vintage Years — []

Freida McFadden

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

It Used to Be Witches Under the Spell of Queer Cinema — Ryan Gilbey

It Used to Be Witches Under the Spell of Queer Cinema

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

American Exxxtasy My 30-Year Search for a Happy Ending — John Amero

American Exxxtasy My 30-Year Search for a Happy Ending

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

Paul Bartel The Life and Films — Stephen B. Armstrong

Paul Bartel The Life and Films

Stephen B. Armstrong

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

The Silver Mirror A History of Gay Cinema, — Robert Potter

The Silver Mirror A History of Gay Cinema

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • Film

Glitter and Concrete A Cultural History of Drag in New York City — Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Glitter and Concrete A Cultural History of Drag in New York City

Elyssa Maxx Goodman

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • History & Criticism

Staging Desire Queer Readings of American Theater History — Kim Marra

Staging Desire Queer Readings of American Theater History

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • History & Criticism

Gentlemen Callers Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama — Michael Paller

Gentlemen Callers Tennessee Williams, Homosexuality, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • History & Criticism

Slaves to Fashion Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity — Monica L. Miller

Slaves to Fashion Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity

Monica L. Miller

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • History & Criticism

Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century — Philip Hoare

Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century

Themes: Gay Studies • LGBTQ+ Studies • History & Criticism

Hotbeds of Licentiousness The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society — Benjamin Halligan

Hotbeds of Licentiousness The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society

Benjamin Halligan

Themes: Pornography • Film • History & Criticism

Queer Mexico Cinema and Television Since 2000 — Paul Julian Smith

Queer Mexico Cinema and Television Since 2000

Paul Julian Smith

Themes: LGBTQ+ Studies • Film • History & Criticism

Of Mud and Flame A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook — Matthew Harle

Of Mud and Flame A Penda’s Fen Sourcebook

Themes: LGBTQ+ Studies • Film • History & Criticism

Golden Goddesses 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 (Hardback) — Jill C. Nelson

Golden Goddesses 25 Legendary Women of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985 (Hardback)

Themes: Pornography • Film • History & Criticism

Raw Talent The Adult Film Industry as Seen by Its Most Popular Male Star — Jerry Butler

Raw Talent The Adult Film Industry as Seen by Its Most Popular Male Star

Themes: Pornography • Film • History & Criticism

Pornography Film and Culture — Peter Lehman

Pornography Film and Culture

Themes: Pornography • Film • History & Criticism

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Pornography, Gay Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies — the same threads that run through Porn Archives by Tim Dean. Among the authors featured: John Mercer, Sean Griffin, Michele Aaron, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, and others.

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