Queer images : a history of gay and lesbian film in America / / Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin
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| Autore: |
Benshoff Harry M.
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| Titolo: |
Queer images : a history of gay and lesbian film in America / / Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., , 2006 |
| 2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/653 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality in motion pictures |
| Gay people in motion pictures | |
| Homosexuality and motion pictures | |
| Motion pictures - United States | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GriffinSean |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Movies |
| Chapter 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 Authors | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Queer 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 wi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Queer images |
| ISBN: | 0-7425-6857-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782378103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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