Richard Barrios

Screened Out

Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

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Produktbeschreibung

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 this has sent to audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780415923286
• ISBN-10: 041592328X
• Artikelnr.: 20970467

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