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Originally published in Europe in the 1950s to avoid prosecution
for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important "lost"
gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colorful cast of
louche but lovable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas
Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French
Quarter in search of the perfect lover--the Gaudy Image. This
beautifully written story is both elegant and caustically humorous,
erotic and sympathetic.
Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is
an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR
camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it was
shot on motion-picture celluloid film. Chapter by chapter, Jonathan
Kemp introduces the reader to a key characteristic of celluloid
film, explains the historical and practical reasons why it exists,
before providing a simplified method for best replicating that
characteristic on a digital camera. The book includes various
practical exercises throughout that are designed to underline the
takeaway principles of each chapter and features case studies on
specific cameras including the Sony NX5 Camcorder, Canon 5D Mk IV,
Canon 4000D, iPhone X, GoPro Hero 6, Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K
and Canon C200. Ideal for students studying film and media
production and filmmaking newcomers who want to get up to speed
quickly, this is an indispensable guide to how the numerous
settings on a digital camera can be used to create footage that
more closely resembles the film 'look'.
Film on Video: A Practical Guide to Making Video Look like Film is
an accessible guide to making video captured on a camcorder, DSLR
camera, smartphone, action camera or cinema camera look like it was
shot on motion-picture celluloid film. Chapter by chapter, Jonathan
Kemp introduces the reader to a key characteristic of celluloid
film, explains the historical and practical reasons why it exists,
before providing a simplified method for best replicating that
characteristic on a digital camera. The book includes various
practical exercises throughout that are designed to underline the
takeaway principles of each chapter and features case studies on
specific cameras including the Sony NX5 Camcorder, Canon 5D Mk IV,
Canon 4000D, iPhone X, GoPro Hero 6, Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 4.6K
and Canon C200. Ideal for students studying film and media
production and filmmaking newcomers who want to get up to speed
quickly, this is an indispensable guide to how the numerous
settings on a digital camera can be used to create footage that
more closely resembles the film 'look'.
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Ghosting (Paperback)
Jonathan Kemp
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Drawing on a brilliant literary tradition of madness, incarceration
and escape, Jonathan Kemp delivers the triumphant coming of age of
a woman in her sixties. When 64-year-old Grace Wellbeck thinks she
sees the ghost of her first husband, she fears for her sanity and
worries that she's having another breakdown. Long-buried memories
come back thick and fast: from the fairground thrills of 1950s
Blackpool to the dark reality of a violent marriage. But the ghost
turns out to be very real: a charismatic young man named Luke. And
as Grace gets to know him, she is jolted into an emotional
awakening that brings her to a momentous decision.
Jack Rose begins his apprenticeship as a rent boy with Alfred
Taylor in the 1890s, and discovers a life of pleasure and excess
that leads him to new friendships, most notably with the soon-to-be
infamous Oscar Wilde. A century later, David tells his own tale of
unashamed decadence while waiting to be released from prison,
addressing his story to the lover who betrayed him. Where their
paths cross, in the politically sensitive 1950s when gay men were
the target of police and politicians alike, artist Colin
tentatively explores his sexuality as he draws in preparation for
his most ambitious painting yet-`London Triptych'. Moodily
atmospheric and rich with history, London Triptych is a sexy,
resplendent portrait of the politics and pleasures of queer life in
one of the world's most fascinating cities.
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Twenty-Six (Paperback)
Jonathan Kemp
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Crafted around twenty-six extraordinary erotic encounters, this
highly charged work is a powerful meditation on the pursuit of
pleasure. In each chapter, titled after a letter of the alphabet,
an anonymous narrator details his experiences, travelling to
cruising grounds and sex clubs, exploring the boundaries of sex,
desire, pleasure, and the body, while reflecting on the limits of
language and the act of writing. In the tradition of Georges
Bataille, Kathy Acker and Jean Genet, these pieces take us to
places language doesn't often go. Kemp powerfully stages a series
of anonymous encounters, describing the relentless pursuit of
sexual pleasure with luminous intensity, while at the same time
facing the impossibility of capturing the moments he describes.
This is a bold and challenging work, unashamedly sensual and
searching. Kemp beautifully counterpoises explicit description with
a searing interrogation of the extreme measures taken in the quest
for sexual fulfillment.
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
"There is much to like about a book which gets real about the male
anus as a site of penetrability which is not reducible to
discourses of feminization, phallicization or psychosis. With real
panache and poetic flair, it returns us to an earlier moment in
queer theoretical discourse we would associate with Lee Edelman's
Homographesis (easily the best book ever written in queer theory
and every page of The Penetrated Male reminded me of it), Calvin
Thomas' Male Matters, and Leo Bersani's "Is the Rectum a Grave?"
Given the recent squeamishness ... in queer theoretical circles
about shit, anality, and penetrability, there is real value (and it
is not some sort of nostalgia for an earlier moment we might want
to get back to) in this book which never shies away from any of
these matters. As embodied and eroticized theory, it fills a much
needed hole in contemporary discourse about the male body. It is a
book I should like to have written." Michael O'Rourke Through
nuanced readings of a handful of modernist texts (Baudelaire,
Huysmans, Wilde, Genet, Joyce, and Schreber's Memoirs), this book
explores and interrogates the figure of the penetrated male body,
developing the concept of the behind as a site of both fascination
and fear. Deconstructing the penetrated male body and the
genderisation of its representation, The Penetrated Male offers new
understandings of passivity, suggesting that the modern masculine
subject is predicated on a penetrability it must always disavow.
Arguing that representation is the embodiment of erotic thought, it
is an important contribution to queer theory and our understandings
of gendered bodies.
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