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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... critic for Motion Picture News , for example , begged viewer indulgence for the uncertain tone of The Clever Mrs. Carfax : " It is marred at the very start by a ' College Reunion ' scene which represents college men as ' loving ' to ...
... critic Sime Silverman was apparently reflecting a consensus : The most silly " comedy " ever put on the sheet [ screen ] .... There is as much fun in it as a Continental battle .... The picture should never have been put out , for ...
... critic smelled a rat here : " The heroic figures were given a decided appearance of femininity . " ) What does seem evident , under any circumstances , is a gay aesthetic : the film smells like lavender and incense , courtesy of the ...
... critic had in mind when he commented that " [ there is ] nothing fresh , vulgar or objectionable about the way Arthur plays it , just ' sissifed ' and funny , so even the average lay mind will absorb it as desired . " Hollywood's ...
... critic quite properly noted of the film's confused characterizations that " the motives or intent of the characters . . . are not properly emphasized . The result is that you are left guessing in several places as to the why or where ...
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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 |