Some suggested reading

• Burger, John R. (1995) One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography. New York: Harrington Park Press
• Caughie, John, Annette Kuhn & Mandy Merck (Eds.) (1992) The Sexual Subject: A Screen Reader in Sexuality. London: Routledge
• Chandler, Daniel (1998) 'Notes on "the Gaze"'. [WWW document] URL http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Documents/short/gaze.html
  
• Cohan, Steve & Ina Rae Stark (Eds) (1992) Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in The Hollywood Cinema. London: Routledge
• Cooper, Emmanuel (1995) Fully Exposed: The Male Nude in Photography. London: Routledge
• Craig, Steve (Ed.) (1992) Men, Masculinity and the Media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
  
• Culbertson, Philip (1998) 'Designing Men: Reading the Male Body as Text' Textual Reasoning 7; [WWW document] URL http://www.bu.edu/mzank/Textual_Reasoning/tr-archive/tr7/Culbertson1.html
• Dyer, Richard (Ed.) (1977) Gays and Film. London: British Film Institute
• Davis, Melody D. (1991) The Male Nude in Contemporary Photography. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
• Dotson, Edisol Wayne (1999) Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture. New York: Harrington Park Press
• Dutton, Kenneth R. (1995) The Perfectible Body: The Western Ideal of Physical Development. London: Cassell
• Ellenzweig, Allen & George Stambolian (1992) The Homoerotic Photograph. New York: Columbia University Press
• Dyer, Richard (1990) Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film. London: Routledge
• Dyer, Richard (1993) The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. London: Routledge
• Farmer, Brett (2000) Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
• Gibson, Pamela Church (Ed) (2004) More Dirty Looks: Gender, Pornography and Power. (2nd Edn) London: BFI
• Hooven III, F. Valentine (2002) Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950-1970. Köln: Taschen
• Jeffords, Susan (1994) Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
• Jeffreys, Sheila (1990) Anticlimax: Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution. London: Women's Press
• Juan-Carlos, Ricardo (1983) Photographing the Male. London: New Burlington
• Kirkham, Pat & Janet Thumin (Eds) (1993) You Tarzan: Masculinity, Movies and Men. London: Lawrence and Wishart
• Kleinhans, Chuck (1996) 'Studying Sexual Images' [WWW document] URL http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/journals/jc/JC40-SpecialSection.html
• Kühnst, Peter (2004) Physique: Classic Photographs of Naked Athletes. London: Thames & Hudson
• Lang, Robert (2002) Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film. New York: Columbia University Press
• Leddick, David (1997) Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935-1955. New York?: Universe Books
• Leddick, David (2000) George Platt Lynes, 1907-1955. Köln: Taschen
• Leddick, David (2001) Male Nudes. Cologne: Taschen
• Lehman, Peter (Ed) (2001) Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture. New York: Routledge
• Mackinnon, Kenneth (1997) Uneasy Pleasures: The Male as an Erotic Object. London: Cygnus Arts
• Mackinnon, Kenneth (2002) Love, Tears and the Male Spectator. London: Associated University Presses
• Mackinnon, Kenneth (2003)
• Mapplethorpe, Robert (2001) Autoportrait. Santa Fe: Arena Editions
• Pultz, John (1995) Photography and the Body. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Riedel, Brian (1996): 'Reading the Gay Male Body' [WWW document] URL http://www.ibiblio.org/grendel/malebody/abstract.html
• Schehr, Lawrence R. (1997) Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies. Stanford: Stanford University Press
• Schuckmann, Patrick (1998) 'Masculinity, the Male Spectator and the Homoerotic Gaze', Amerikastudien/American Studies 43(4): 671-80
• Smith, Jeremiah (nd): 'From Johnson to Nixon: Narrative Shifts in Gay Male Pornography' [WWW document] URL http://www.reconstruction.ws/011/Fj/fromjohnson.htm
• Spicuzza, Mary (2000): 'Beef Cake Blues' (from Metro) [WWW document] URL http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.06.00/cover/bodyobsession1-0027.html
• Thomas, Calvin (1998) Male Matters: Masculinity, Anxiety, and the Male Body on the Line. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press
• Waugh, Thomas (1996) Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Erotics in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall. New York: Columbia University Press
• Weinberg, Jonathan (2005) Male Desire: The Homoerotic in American Art. New York: Abrams

Key Films

Film
Atgof (Memory) (Ceri Sherlock 1991)	availability unknown
Caught Looking (Constantine Giannaris 1991)
The Celluloid Closet (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman 1995)
Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet 1950)
Edward II (Derek Jarman 1991)
My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears 1985)
No Skin Off My Ass (Bruce LaBruce 1991)
Sebastiane (Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman 1976)
Super 8-1/2 (Bruce LaBruce 1993)

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