Lucas Hilderbrand

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Historical Fantasies: Gay Porn in the Archives,” Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, eds. Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016)

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Porno-Chic-Sex-Wars-Representation/dp/1625342268

Co-editor, with David Evans Frantz and Kayleigh Perkov, Cock, Paper, Scissors (exhibition catalogue, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, 2016)
Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-David-Evans-Frantz/dp/0989407217/

“On the Matter of Blackness in Under the Skin,” JumpCut 57 (fall 2016)
Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/-HilderbrandUnderSkin/index.html

Paris Is Burning (Queer Film Classics series, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Burning-Queer-Classic-Classics/dp/1551525194

“Luring Disco Dollies to a Life of Vice: Queer Pop Music’s Moment,” Journal of Popular Music Studies (25:4, December 2013)
PDF available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpms.12044/abstract

“Sex out of Sync: Christmas on Earth‘s and Couch‘s Queer Soundtracks,” Camera Obscura (83, September 2013)
PDF available at: http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/28/2_83/45.full.pdf+html

“A Suitcase Full of Vaseline, or Travels in the 1970s Gay World,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (22:3, September 2013)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/toc/sex.22.3.html

Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press, 2009)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Inherent-Vice-Histories-Videotape-Copyright/dp/0822343762

“YouTube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge,” Film Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 1 (Fall 2007)
PDF available at: http://caliber.ucpress.net/toc/fq/61/1

“Retroactivism,” GLQ, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2006)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/toc/glq12.2.html

“Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics,” Camera Obscura, Issue 57 (December 2004)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/camera_obscura/toc/co19.3.html

COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY

MONOGRAPH BOOKS:

Paris Is Burning (Queer Film Classics series, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Paris-Burning-Queer-Classic-Classics/dp/1551525194

Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright (Duke University Press, 2009)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Inherent-Vice-Histories-Videotape-Copyright/dp/0822343762

ESSAYS AND EDITORIAL PROJECTS:

“Historical Fantasies: Gay Porn in the Archives,” Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: American Sexual Representation in the 1970s, eds. Carolyn Bronstein and Whitney Strub (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016)

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Porno-Chic-Sex-Wars-Representation/dp/1625342268

“On the Matter of Blackness in Under the Skin,” JumpCut 57 (fall 2016)
Available at http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/-HilderbrandUnderSkin/index.html

Under the Skin dossier coordinator and introduction author, JumpCut 57 (fall 2016)
Available at: http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/index.html

“The Uncut Version: The Mattachine Society’s Pornographic Epilogue,” Sexualities Volume 19, number 4 (June 2016)
PDF available at: http://sex.sagepub.com/content/19/4/449.full.pdf+html

“Sticky Pages from History: Pornography and Gay Male Print Culture,” Cock, Paper, Scissors, eds. David Evans Frantz, Kayleigh Perkov, and Lucas Hilderbrand (ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, 2016)

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-David-Evans-Frantz/dp/0989407217/

“Queer Cinema, Queer Writing, Queer Criticism,” The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian American Literature, ed. Scott Herring (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-American-Literature-Companions/dp/1107646189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446699256

“Sex out of Sync: Christmas on Earth‘s and Couch’s Queer Soundtracks,” Camera Obscura 83 (September 2013)
PDF available at: http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/28/2_83/45.full.pdf+html

“In the Heat of the Moment: The Past, Present and Futures of Born in Flames,” Women & Performance (2013)
PDF available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0740770X.2013.786340#.UcPVFev0r-k

“Moving Images: On Video Art Distribution” in Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video, edited by Ming-Yuen Ma and Erika Suderberg (University of Minnesota Press, 2012)

Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Resolutions-3-Global-Networks-Video/dp/0816670838

“The Art of Distribution: Video on Demand,” Film Quarterly (64:2, winter 2010)
PDF available at: http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/FQ.2010.64.2.24

Special issue editor (with Lynne Sachs), “Experiments in Documentary,” Millennium Film Journal (summer 2009)
Available at: http://mfj-online.org/

“Experiments in Documentary: Contradiction, Uncertainty, Change,” Millennium Film Journal (summer 2009)
PDF available at: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e88476a397d012423e4ed85f27f8f2134a42fd493f53b49473cf87501a56a7e0b&fmt=P

“YouTube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge,” Film Quarterly, Vol. 61, Issue 1 (Fall 2007)
PDF available at: http://caliber.ucpress.net/toc/fq/61/1

Special issue editor, “Media Access: Technologies and Preservation,” Spectator, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
Available at: http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/critical-studies/spectator/spectator-spring-2007-vol-272b.htm

“Mediating Queer Boyhood: Dottie Gets Spanked” in The Cinema of Todd Haynes, edited by James Morrison (Wallflower Press, 2007)

“Retroactivism,” GLQ, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (Spring 2006)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/toc/glq12.2.html

Co-editor, with Kate Horsfield, Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews (Temple University Press, 2006)

“Conceptual Cinephilia: On Jon Routson’s Bootlegs,” in Cinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory, edited by Marijke de Valck & Malte Hagener (Universiteit van Amsterdam Press, 2005)

“Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics,” Camera Obscura, Issue 57 (December 2004)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/camera_obscura/toc/co19.3.html

COLUMNS, COMMENTARIES, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS:

“Some of This Actually Happened,” WSQ (Women’s Studies Quarterly): The 1970s (43:3-4; fall/winter 2015)
PDF available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wsq/v043/43.3-4.hilderbrand.html

With Alexandra Juhasz, Debra Levine, and Ricardo Montez, “Downtown’s Queer Asides,” Downtown Film, Video, and TV Culture 1975-2001, ed. Joan Hawkins (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2015)
Available at: http://www.amazon.com/Downtown-Film-TV-Culture-1975-2001/dp/1783204222/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1446699314

“Dear Rhys Ernst,” Visual AIDS website (March 2015)
Online at: https://www.visualaids.org/blog/detail/ernsts-video-reminds-us-that-trans-stories-can-also-be-aids-histories-and-g

“I Wanna Go, or Finding Love in a Hopeless Place,” Media Fields 7 (December 2013)
Online at: http://mediafieldsjournal.squarespace.com/i-wanna-go/

“Puppets, Pink Felt, and Levi’s Pockets: Materials from the Main Club,” RECAPS Magazine (July 2013)
Online at: http://recapsmagazine.com/rethink/puppets-pink-felt-and-levis-pockets-materials-from-the-main-club-by-lucas-hilderbrand/

“Harpo Never Scolded Me for My Excesses: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum,” Berfrois, May 2012
Online at: http://www.berfrois.com/2012/05/berfrois-interviews-wayne-koestenbaum/

“Undateable: Reflections on Online Dating and the Perversion of Time,” Flow (13:12, spring 2011)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/2011/04/undateable/

“It’s Okay to Watch a Show Called Cougar Town,” Flow (13:8, winter 2011)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/2011/02/its-okay-to-watcha-show-called-cougar-town/

“The History of Postmodern: Mark Ronson’s Pop Nostalgia,” Flow (13:3, fall 2010)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/2010/11/the-history-of-postmodern-mark-ronson’s-pop-nostalgia-lucas-hilderbrand-university-of-california-irvine/

“Sweatin’ Out the Shame,” Flow (11:12, spring 2010)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4971

“Phonography: Lessons Learned from Teaching Audio Technologies,” Flow (11:7, winter 2010)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4766

“Cinematic Promiscuity: Cinephilia after Videophilia,” Framework (50:1-2, fall 2009)
PDF available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/framework_the_journal_of_cinema_and_media/summary/v050/50.1-2.hilderbrand.html

“Reflections on The Blindness Series,” commissioned essay for Tran T. Kim-Trang, The Blindness Series DVD box set, Video Data Bank (September 2009)
Reprinted in More Than Meets the Eye, edited by Jesse Lerner, Tran Trang, and Holly Willis (2016): http://scalar.usc.edu/works/more-than-meets-the-eye-the-videos-of-tran-t-kim-trang/index

“Stage Left: Glee and the Textual Politics of Difference,” Flow (11:3, fall 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4574

“Rewind: sex, lies, and videotape at 20,” Flow (10:7, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4246

“Digital Is Not a Noun,” Flow (10:4, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4126

“Justice Is a Bitch: On Damages as Liberal Revenge Fantasy,” Flow (10:1, summer 2009)
Online at: http://flowtv.org/?p=4014

“’More Than One Way to Love’”: On Kiki and Herb (But Mostly Kiki),” Camera Obscura, Issue 67 (Spring 2008)
PDF available at: http://cameraobscura.dukejournals.org/content/vol23/issue1_67/?etoc

“An Accidental Institution: Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee: An Interview with Claire Brandt,” Spectator, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
Available at: http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/critical-studies/spectator/spectator-spring-2007-vol-272b.htm

“Adaptation” (review essay), Film Quarterly, Vol. 58, Issue 1 (Fall 2004)
PDF available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3697263

Projects

Book in progress:

The Bars Are Ours: The Culture of Gay Bars in the U.S., 1960s-2000s

Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies