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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... decades he has been a close friend , movie buddy , confidant , and advisor , and without him I would not have considered a career as a film historian or writer . His contributions to this book are without number : there's no way I could ...
... decades , to one of its early scenes : ZaSu Pitts , who specialized in fluttery - helpless shtick , plays the hotel's switchboard operator . While connect- ing calls for the hotel guests , she vacantly chats on the phone with her ...
... decades before Stonewall , filmmakers were portraying it . Audiences saw and understood it . So much for the authenticity and objectivity of received knowledge . Secret Witnesses Film and its audience — which has the greater influence ...
... decades the images and portrayals have been consistently present and regardless of what some historians or politicians or theologians say — they've run the almighty gamut . The love that dared not speak its name didn't , as far as the ...
... decades for the reclamation to begin.1 Out of The Closet In 1981 , when Vito Russo's Celluloid Closet was published ... decade after the Stonewall riots , any thought that studies of gay culture might be viable or necessary was still a ...
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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 |