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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... featured players are Una Merkel and William Collier , Jr. , and it was released by Columbia Pictures when that studio was still a lower - grade production company . No one remembers it , and justifiably so ; even in 1931 the only thing ...
... featured prominently in several of the earliest all - talking films , including an indelible appearance in the operetta The Desert Song ( 1929 ) . In Warner Bros. all - star revue The Show of Shows ( 1929 ) , he was spotted promi ...
... featured , the British - born Arthur was cast in several similar assign- ments , but there was something reticent , almost tasteful , about his portrayals that gave them , inadvertently , a dose of realism . Perhaps if Irene had come a ...
... featured two screen debuts : its star , Beatrice Lillie , and , in a major supporting role , Franklin Pangborn . The silent film's fascination with the theatre was again apparent , as Lillie played a slavey doing menial work for a low ...
... featured Leatrice Joy as a severe and success- ful businesswoman , A [ ntoinette ] . B. Allen , who , when overhearing someone decry her lack of feminine charm , decides she would prefer the love of a good man and undergoes a makeover ...
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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 |