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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968334203321

Autore

Powell Ryan

Titolo

Coming Together : The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979 / / Ryan Powell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9780226634401

022663440X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

321.0230973

Soggetti

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Gay people in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Social aspects

Gay men in mass media

Gay cinema

Gay films

LGBTQ+ cinema

LGBTQ+ films

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Picturing the Underground -- 2. The Cinematic Authoring of Gay Life -- 3. Toward a Gay Mainstream -- 4. Liberation Porn -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger and the Gay Girls Riding Club to the gay liberation-era hardcore films and domestic dramas of Joe Gage and James Bidgood, Powell illuminates how central filmmaking and exhibition were to gay socializing and worldmaking. Unearthing scores of films and a trove of film-related ephemera, Coming Together persuasively unsettles popular histories that center Stonewall as a



ground zero for gay liberation and visibility. Powell asks how this generation of movie-making-which defiantly challenged legal and cultural norms around sexuality and gender-provided, and may still provide, meaningful models for living.