Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to StonewallRoutledge, 2005 M02 16 - 416 pages Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler. Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about freedom and compassion, even empowerment. |
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... America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies . Screened Out is a fresh and exhilarating look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie - making . Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today ...
... America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies . Screened Out is a fresh and exhilarating look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie - making . Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today ...
... America . Two archives in particular were indispensable in this regard . The Cinema - Television Library at the University of Southern California is a combination of warehouse and treasure trove for the film histo- rian . Among its ...
... film has had an incalcula- ble bearing upon sexuality as it translates into all our lives . The movies ' influ- ence ... American film , as in American life , long before that damnable received ( that is , mainstream heterosexual ) ...
... film . " Russo comments , " Nor have they been in any other major American release before or since . " Russo's view ... film history as a whole . The concept of closets cannot always be applied fairly to films or actors or audiences in ...
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Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall Richard Barrios Limited preview - 2005 |
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall Richard Barrios Limited preview - 2003 |
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall Richard Barrios Limited preview - 2003 |