03337nam 2200601 450 991082194050332120231213153705.00-7425-6857-1(CKB)1000000000542829(EBL)1354853(OCoLC)869090631(MiAaPQ)EBC1354853(Au-PeEL)EBL1354853(CaPaEBR)ebr10921091(CaONFJC)MIL511872(EXLCZ)99100000000054282920140902h20062006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierQueer images a history of gay and lesbian film in America /Harry M. Benshoff and Sean GriffinLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,2006.20061 online resource (334 p.)Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-299-80621-X 0-7425-1971-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction What Is Queer Film History?; Chapter 1 From Pansies to Predators: Queer Characters in Early American Cinema; Chapter 2 Discreet Charms: Queer Filmmakers in Classical Hollywood; Chapter 3 ""Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark"": Queer Audiences and Classical Hollywood Cinema; Chapter 4 Fear and Loathing in Postwar Hollywood; Chapter 5 Exploitation or Art? Queer Films beyond Hollywood; Chapter 6 Hollywood and the Sexual Revolution; Chapter 7 Producing Pride: Queers Make MoviesChapter 8 Out of the Closet and into the Art HouseChapter 9 A Matter of Life and Death: AIDS, Activism, Film, and Video; Chapter 10 Hollywood Is Burning: New Queer Cinema; Chapter 11 Queer Eye for the Straight Hollywood Executive; Chapter 12 Queer Independent Film at the Turn of the Millennium; Select Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorsQueer Images chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book of its kind, it explores the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen as well as the work of queer filmmakers and the cultural histories of queer audiences--from the works of discreetly homosexual filmmakers during Hollywood's Golden Age and classical Hollywood's attempt to purge sex perversion from films, to queer exploitation and physique films, cinematic responses to AIDS, and how contemporary Hollywood deals wiGenre and beyond.Homosexuality in motion picturesGay people in motion picturesHomosexuality and motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesHomosexuality in motion pictures.Gay people in motion pictures.Homosexuality and motion pictures.Motion pictures791.43/653Benshoff Harry M.1133266Griffin SeanMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821940503321Queer images3950927UNINA