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.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Contributions
Diagnostic Spectatorship: Modern Physical Culture and White Masculinity
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.