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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... musical , and at first it seems that the filmmakers heightened the character to make Lucy the brightest 5Not that films of the time shunned genuine eroticism . Greta Garbo's love scenes with John Gilbert in Flesh and the Devil and A ...
... musical , Madame Lucy's potential ( such as it was ) might have been better realized . With this role , as with many subsequent ones , there was a tabula rasa quality , which is obviously what one critic had in mind when he commented ...
... musical , the template for everything that has come afterward . The Broadway Melody , which opened early in 1929 , was the first all - talking film made by Hollywood's biggest studio , MGM , and the first sound film to win an Academy ...
... Musicals burst onto the talkie scene as a full- blown new genre , dominated by the studios ' singular , even relentless ... musical numbers , often splashed in early Technicolor , these backstage movies offered a regimented lexicon of ...
... on The Desert Song and all the other pioneer movie musicals , the reader is directed , with due modesty , to my book A Song in the Dark : The Birth of the Musical Film ( 1995 ) . FIRST RIFF : Ahhhh ... a spy ! SECOND RIFF 40 Screened Out.
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