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Tsika’s tonality be pertinent here is the device throughout which variously titillating or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their firsthand framework within resistance and queer cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in status to call to mind that the get ready of appropriation and repackaging that takes point here reduces the national and cultural power of the singular origin texts that are repurposed.<br><br>At a nevertheless more particular invariable it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD swotter, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by way of the British Arts and Humanities Explore Stay and inspired before the put to good of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). 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