Australian Gay Porn Videos: the National Identity of Despised Cultural Objects

(1999) Australian Gay Porn Videos: the National Identity of Despised Cultural Objects. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2(2), pp. 178-198.

[img]
Preview
PDF (114kB)
14960.pdf.

Description

Debates about the local and the global continue to be prominent in cultural studies. By taking an example of Australian gay porn videos, which in some ways are convincingly 'local', the paper suggests that previous attempts to define 'the local' - in terms either of textual features or provenance of production - are problematic. It proposes instead the idea of 'persuasiveness' as a way of accounting for 'localness' which does not rely on implications of authenticity.

Impact and interest:

17 citations in Scopus
Search Google Scholar™

Citation counts are sourced monthly from Scopus and Web of Science® citation databases.

These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science® generally from 1980 onwards.

Citations counts from the Google Scholar™ indexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search.

Full-text downloads:

11,525 since deposited on 25 Sep 2008
7,612 in the past twelve months

Full-text downloads displays the total number of times this work’s files (e.g., a PDF) have been downloaded from QUT ePrints as well as the number of downloads in the previous 365 days. The count includes downloads for all files if a work has more than one.

ID Code: 14960
Item Type: Contribution to Journal (Journal Article)
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: Australian culture, gay pornography, global/local, mateship, national identity
ISSN: 1367-8779
Pure ID: 60104353
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty
Current > Research Centres > Law and Justice Research Centre
Copyright Owner: Copyright 1999 SAGE Publications
Copyright Statement: The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, The International Journal of Cultural Studies 2(2):pp. 178-198. 1999 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the The International Journal of Cultural Studies
Deposited On: 25 Sep 2008 10:00
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2025 20:48