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9780415923286

Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415923286

  • ISBN10:

    041592328X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-11
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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 Outshows 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 inThe 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 wereportrayed 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 Outis 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Something About a Well
Silent Existences
Speaking Plainly
Codes of Behavior
The Naked Moon
Pansies and Lesbos of 1933
Legions and Decency
Turnabout: Life in a Coded World
Reluctant Flamboyance: Forties Escapism
Dark Passages: Forties Drama
Tempests and Teapots
Something Evil
That Touch of Mink: Sex and the Sixties
The Wild Side
"I'm no queer," he lied
Open Season An Epilogue
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