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

• Autore: Powell Ryan
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 275 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 321.0230973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coming Together
• ISBN: 9780226634401; 022663440X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910968334203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II