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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... look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie - making . Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today , Richard Barrios offers a compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays , and the ...
... look at sexuality in the Great Age of Movie - making . Spanning popular American cinema from the early 1900s until today , Richard Barrios offers a compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays , and the ...
... look back , I was stunned by the number of people who had helped me and supported the creation of this work . I can only extend my heartfelt thanks to all of them . First off , I would like to give both gratitude and homage to all the ...
... see The Secret Witness may not have understood it , but quite obviously many thousands of other spectators did . They would have known of the book and its sensational reputation , and they would have laughed at the look.
... look of comic consternation on ZaSu's face as she talked about it . What's being implied here ? Received knowledge tells us that gays and lesbians were as hidden away onscreen as they seemed to be in real life and that the handful of ...
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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 |