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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... onscreen as they seemed to be in real life and that the handful of films before the 1960s that portrayed them did so in coded and condemnatory ways . This vignette from The Secret Witness doesn't seem to fit this scheme , and it's not a ...
... onscreen garden came , then , as a bracing surprise things that had been known and pointedly ignored were suddenly being talked about , and with as much ferocity as intelligence . The timing of Russo's book was , in fact , more dramatic ...
... onscreen playing straight playing gay . Don't ever let it be denied , either that it can make for a great deal of sport to try to score outing points by rooting around in old closets for gay skeletons . Just remember , in doing so ...
... onscreen of these characters certainly counted as a positive factor for many thousands , and there isn't always the ridicule or condemnation that one expects . They weren't , one way or another , put down with any greater force than ...
... onscreen at this time than at any other point in American cinema until the late 1980s . Even casual random screenings of titles will bear out this fact . With some exceptions the onscreen time of these charac- ters was brief ( as it ...
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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 |