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. Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world -- have made since Stonewall. Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater and drawn strength and a sense of identity from what they saw on screen, no matter how fleeting or coded. |
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Page 14
... Later in the twenty-first century, when the same-sex experience will stop being an issue for most people, these old films will remain to remind us of the joyful and terrible struggle of the years when being out on the screen carried a ...
... Later in the twenty-first century, when the same-sex experience will stop being an issue for most people, these old films will remain to remind us of the joyful and terrible struggle of the years when being out on the screen carried a ...
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... later A Florida Enchantment blurred them far more. Historians frequently turn to it as an example of a bona fide comedy of sexual confusion, and, startlingly enough, it holds up under scrutiny. An adaptation of an 1891 novel and a ...
... later A Florida Enchantment blurred them far more. Historians frequently turn to it as an example of a bona fide comedy of sexual confusion, and, startlingly enough, it holds up under scrutiny. An adaptation of an 1891 novel and a ...
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... later as Darla's. By the time he costarred as the Japanese caricature Suki Yaki (read Hirohito) in The Nazty Nuisance in 1943, his early pioneer work as a cinematic flamethrower was long forgotten. Much of Arthur's early work is ...
... later as Darla's. By the time he costarred as the Japanese caricature Suki Yaki (read Hirohito) in The Nazty Nuisance in 1943, his early pioneer work as a cinematic flamethrower was long forgotten. Much of Arthur's early work is ...
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... later as an early movie 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 ...
... later as an early movie 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 ...
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... Later, when he first sets foot in a Broadway theater, a burly stagehand immediately gets the message, suddenly mincing, batting his eyes, waving one hand flittingly, and calling out “Whoops, dearie!” Eric, who doesn't understand this ...
... Later, when he first sets foot in a Broadway theater, a burly stagehand immediately gets the message, suddenly mincing, batting his eyes, waving one hand flittingly, and calling out “Whoops, dearie!” Eric, who doesn't understand this ...
Contents
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TWO Speaking Plainly | 37 |
THREE Codes of Behavior | 55 |
FOUR The Naked Moon | 81 |
FIVE Pansies and Lesbos of 1933 | 95 |
SIX Legions and Decency | 123 |
Life in a Coded World | 145 |
ELEVEN Something Evil | 247 |
Sex and the Sixties | 275 |
THIRTEEN The Wild Side | 293 |
FOURTEEN Im No Queer He Lied | 317 |
FIFTEEN Open Season | 339 |
An Epilogue | 363 |
Notes on Sources | 367 |
Selected Bibliography | 377 |
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