Richard Barrios

Screened Out (eBook, ePUB)

Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134001781
• Artikelnr.: 45095938

Autorenporträt

Richard Barrios, a native of Louisiana, lives in New York City. He is the author of A Song in the Dark: The Birthof the Musical Film. He holds degrees in cinema studies, music history, and literature, and has worked in the film industry and music publishing.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Something About a Well Chapter One: Silent Existences Chapter
Two: Speaking Plainly Chapter Three: Codes of Behavior Chapter Four: The
Naked Moon Chapter Five: Pansies and Lesbos of 1933 Chapter Six: Legions
and Decency Chapter Seven: Turnabout: Life in a Coded World Chapter Eight:
Reluctant Flamboyance: Forties Escapism Chapter Nine: Dark Passages:
Forties Drama Chapter Ten: Tempests and Teapots Chapter Eleven: Something
Evil Chapter Twelve: That Touch of Mink: Sex and the Sixties Chapter
Thirteen: The Wild Side Chapter Fourteen: I'm no queer, he lied Chapter
Fifteen: Open Season An Epilogue