Jean-Thomas Tremblay

Bio

Jean-Thomas Tremblay is assistant professor of English at New Mexico State University. They are completing a monograph on aesthetic responses to the pollution, weaponization, and monetization of air and breath, and are editing, with Andrew Strombeck, the collection Avant-Gardes in Crisis: Art and Politics in the Long 1970s, forthcoming from SUNY Press.

Contributions

Diagnostic Spectatorship: Modern Physical Culture and White Masculinity

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Denis Côté’s 2017 film Ta peau si lisse opens on the domestic routines of bodybuilders. [1] One man (bald, bearded, tanned) spreads moisturizer on his thighs, calves, and pectoral muscles before putting on jeans and selecting from an array of nearly identical, bright-colored T-shirts and running shoes. Another man (younger, paler, and sporting a buzzcut) weighs, then microwaves, portions of ground beef and white rice. In the next scene, he lifts weights in a basement. His loud, controlled...

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