Thomas Waugh
Canadian academic and film critic / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thomas Waugh is a Canadian critic, lecturer, author, actor, and activist,[1][2][3] best known for his extensive work on documentary film and eroticism in the history of LGBT cinema and art.[4] A professor emeritus at Concordia University,[5] he taught 41 years in the film studies program of the School of Cinema and held a research chair in documentary film and sexual representation. He was also the director of the Concordia HIV/AIDS Project, 1993-2017, a program providing a platform for research and conversations involving HIV/AIDS in the Montréal area.[6]
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) London, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | Academic, Author, Critic, Programmer, Activist |
Period | 1970s-present |
Notable works | Show Us Life: Towards a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall |