1st Edition
Screened Out Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall
By Richard Barrios
Copyright 2003
424 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
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 Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until... Read more
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
Biography
Richard Barrios, a native of Louisiana, lives in New York City. He is the author of A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film. He holds degrees in cinema studies, music history, and literature, and has worked in the film industry and music publishing.
"His exhaustive research and accessible style make the book a valuable resource..." -Journal of the History of Homosexuality
