Embodied Media Encounters: Joel Burges

More scholarly than the embodied cameo, this piece is an initial exploration of how we at times forget about television in telling the story of gay male representation, especially by granting priority to film history. While a film like “Cruising” occupies an infamous place in that story, the visual repetition and sonic layering here aim to recall the past and future of television to it through moments from “Starsky & Hutch,” “Longtime Companion,” and “Homicide: Life on the Street.” I wanted to suggest how television is an intimate archive of images broadcast in the home–but images that sometimes interrupt the homo/hetero binary that the domestic sphere is (now was?) meant to secure in us.

embodied media: sometimes the memory