José Arroyo in Conversation with Tom Waugh on Hard to Imagine

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/05/27/ose-arroyo-in-conversation-with-tom-waugh-on-hard-to-imagine/ The groundbreaking and influential 'Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism and Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall' is coming to its 25th anniversary. In this podcast we ask Tom Waugh about the intellectual and social context in which the research took place, the methods developed to produce it, the way materials were gathered, who was interviewed, the many barriers to its publication, how the book was received then and why it continues to be so influential now.