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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... viewers , Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory . He also offers a pointed warning : we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real ...
... viewers , Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory . He also offers a pointed warning : we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real ...
... viewers a peculiar and intense collusion . We end up experiencing much of our lives and our relationships in terms of what we've seen on the screen . Who hasn't thrown ( or hasn't wanted to throw ) a fit in the manner of Bette or Brando ...
... viewers . Gayness onscreen was still pre- sent , then , if far less conspicuous . In these shadowy and guarded times , some gallant and intrepid men and women kept the gayness in the movies , often at great professional risk . If you ...
... viewer indulgence for the uncertain tone of The Clever Mrs. Carfax : " It is marred at the very start by a ' College Reunion ' scene which represents college men as ' loving ' to assume fem- inine attire . " However , lest audiences ...
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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 |