Articles & Essays by Jack Fritscher

Jack Fritscher’s articles and essays span more than six decades of cultural criticism, literary scholarship, and firsthand gay history. Published in academic journals including the Journal of Popular Culture, Modern Drama, and the Bucknell Review, in the Catholic press dating back to 1958, in the gay press, and in major encyclopedias, his writing ranges from groundbreaking Tennessee Williams scholarship to eyewitness accounts of gay liberation in San Francisco. Together these works form an essential archive of mid-century American literature, Catholic intellectual history, and LGBTQ popular culture.

Journal of Popular Culture cover

Academic

Encyclopedia of Censorship cover

Encyclopedia

Alphatribe cover

Gay Press

Love and Death in Tennessee Williams cover

Tennessee Williams

Jack Fritscher photo

Catholic Press

Academic – Encyclopedia – Gay Press – Tennessee Williams – Catholic Press

Academic: Articles & Essays

Journal of Popular Culture
Tribal Theatre: Hair, Love-Rock Musical
Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band
Stanley Kubrick’s: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Bucknell Review
"The Sensibility and Conscious Style of William Bradford in Of Plymouth Plantation"
Cadence Literary
"Odysseus in a Field of Rye"
Modern Drama
Some Attitudes and a Posture: Religious Metaphor and Ritual in Tennessee Williams’ Query of the American God
Playbill
“We All Live on Half of Something”

Encyclopedia: Articles and Essays

CENSORSHIP: A World Encyclopedia
"What Happened When: Censorship, Gay History, and Mapplethorpe

GAY PRESS

Tennessee Williams: Articles, Essays, and Books

Love and Death in Tennessee Williams
New York Art Theatre Playbill
We All Live on Half of Something"
Modern Drama
Some Attitudes and a Posture: Religious Ritual in Tennessee Williams"
Challenges in American Culture
"Popular Culture as Cyclic Phenomenon in the Evolution of Tennessee Williams"
Referenced in Academic Citations & Dissertations
"Out of Touch: A Study of the Literary Relationship Between the Work of D. H. Lawrence and Tennessee Williams"
"My Own Mind Is My Own Church"
"The Concept of One-ness in Tennessee Williams' Kingdom of Earth" (The Seven Descents of Myrtle)
"Tennessee Williams: A Casebook"
"A Study of Conflict in the "Undefeated" Characters in the Selected Plays of Tennessee Williams"
"Apollonian-Dionsyian Conflict in Three Tennessee Williams Plays"
"The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams"

Catholic Press