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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... gay and lesbian existed either behind locked doors or in the most ghettoized sub- areas of the population . Therefore , and not surprisingly , trying to find traces of gay or lesbian characters in American films before the 1920s is like ...
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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 |