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A full autobiography and works including translations are found at įiliault and Drummond ( 2007 Filiault, M. This appeared in two volumes: Volume 1 serialised in G-Men, Issues 63–86 (2001–03), and Volume 2 in G-Men, Issues 88–123 (2003–06).ħ.
Male armor: The soldier-hero in contemporary American culture, Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. Adams also cites Butler's notion that gender should be conceived as an incessant and repeated action (Adams, 2008 Adams, Robert Jon. Available at, accessed 11 February 2009. See Dino Felluga, ‘Modules on Butler: On performativity. In Screening the male: Exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema, Edited by: Cohan, Steven and Hark, Ina Rae. ), in particular Tasker's term “masculinity”, and Jeffords ( 1993 Jeffords, Susan. “ Dumb movies for dumb people: Masculinity, the body, and the voice in contemporary action cinema”. “ Masculinity as multiple masquerade: The “mature” Stallone and the Stallone clone”. For example, the ‘Japanese Transnational Fandoms & Female Consumers’ workshop, held at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 3–4 July 2008.Ĥ. See Don't call pop culture art – it's rubbish for a critique of popular culture, available at –its-rubbish-20100209-npjc.html, accessed 5 March 2010.ģ.
The title of the exhibition is a pun on “ O-genki desu ka” or “How are you?”.Ģ. Tom Dunne Gallery, 1 Little Burton Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia, 25 February–7 March 2010. The essay comments on how Tagame deterritorialises characters associated with wartime Japan such as the soldier, the POW and the kenpeitai by requiring them to engage in acts not typical of any definition of hegemonic masculinity, and then reterritorialises them into creating equally complex and horror-filled homosexual utopias.ġ. By drawing on several interdisciplinary areas to inform my reading of these narratives, I argue that, while on one level Tagame presents stories as graphic cartoon porn, on another level he weaves into the images and wording a much deeper sense of how homosociality can easily transform into homosexuality, despite his male characters being positioned as examples of hegemonic masculinity. This essay explores how Tagame constructs masculinity in three stories set in the context of wartime Japan. Though prolific and having a substantial cult following in his native Japan, parts of the US and Europe, his work has not received the academic attention it deserves. Tagame Gengoroh (1964–) is a Japanese manga writer who specialises in erotic gay male SM themed comics.