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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... Naked Moon FIVE Pansies and Lesbos of 1933 SIX Legions and Decency SEVEN Turnabout: Life in a Coded World EIGHT Reluctant Flamboyance: Forties Escapism NINE Dark Passages: Forties Drama TEN Tempests and Teapots ELEVEN Something Evil ...
... Naked Moon FIVE Pansies and Lesbos of 1933 SIX Legions and Decency SEVEN Turnabout : Life in a Coded World CONTENTS.
... Naked Moon , " which contributed immensely to the censorship clampdown of the mid - thirties . Even a well - known later film like Compulsion ( 1959 ) , a fictional version of the sensational Loeb and Leopold case , gets no mention ...
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