The dust of beefcakes and Bob Mizer's centennial (1922-2022)

pornoarchaeology of a queer authorship

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i21.55278

Abstract

This essay seeks to reflect on the centennial of the American photographer and filmmaker Bob Mizer (1922-2022) by touching on homoerotic sensibilities among body, pornography, and media. To this end, I present the view of pornoarchaeology as a resource to revisit these beefcakes today, taking Mizer’s photographic and audiovisual works in their aesthetic communicability through pre-Stonewall political masturbation and the jerk off postwar masculinity. Within a financial, affective, and media circuit, I see the appropriations of the artist’s works associated with camp, irony, and kitsch possess a spectoriality that appears not only as a homoerotic archive mobilized by nostalgia, but as an erotic media heritage that makes queer authorship a gesture of enduring potency.

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Ribamar José de Oliveira Junior, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Substitute professor at the Department of Expression and Languages and post-doctoral student at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). PhD in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) with a sandwich period at York University (YorkU), Canada. Master's in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Specialist in Gender and Sexuality in Education from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and in Cultural Journalism from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Graduated in Social Communication from the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA).

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2025-04-24

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Oliveira Junior, R. J. de. (2025). The dust of beefcakes and Bob Mizer’s centennial (1922-2022): pornoarchaeology of a queer authorship. Revista Periódicus, 2(21), 104–133. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v2i21.55278

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Vol. 2 No. 21 (2025): Defying monogamy: emergent biopolitics of relational dissidence

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