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UNINA9910968334203321 |
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Autore |
Powell Ryan |
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Coming Together : The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979 / / Ryan Powell |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019] |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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