Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in The Dude Wrangler. Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about freedom and compassion, even empowerment.
Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world -- have made since Stonewall.
Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, Screened Out is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater and drawn strength and a sense of identity from what they saw on screen, no matter how fleeting or coded.
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LGBT StudiesIndex
Characters in italics indicate a photograph. Characters in boldface indicate a biographical sketch. Numbers following the letter "n" indicate the footnote on the page number preceding the "n."
Abbott, Bud, and Costello, Lou 201
Abbott, George 43
Academy Awards ["Oscars"] 37, 112n10, 196, 202, 204, 219n2, 242, 266n10, 269, 271 n12, 274, 277, 286, 305, 307n9, 323, 342, 343, 347, 357
Adam's Rib (1949) 205-6, 255
Adler, Renata 342
Adrian, [Gilbert] 28
Advise and Consent 282, 296, 297, 298, 299, 302, 303, 312-4, 323, 324, 331, 334, 345
Advocate, The 270
African Queen, The 261
Aherne, Brian 149
Aimée, Anouk 300, 301n4
"Ain't There Anyone Here For Love?" 233-4
Albee, Edward 329
Aldrich, Robert 300, 344-5, 346
Alexis, Demetrius 124
Algie, the Miner 17-23, 24, 31
Algren, Nelson 296, 297, 308
Alice in Wonderland (1933) 139
All About Eve 43, 194, 204, 214, 223-6, 261, 323
All Fall Down 311—2
All Over Town 115
Allen, Marty, and Rossi, Steve 328
Allen, Gracie 116
Allister, Claud 170
Alpert, Hollis 313
Alton, Robert 168
America [magazine] 57, 273, 305,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION Something about a Well
- ONE Silent Existences
- TWO Speaking Plainly
- THREE Codes of Behavior
- FOUR The Naked Moon
- FIVE Pansies and Lesbos of 1933
- SIX Legions and Decency
- SEVEN Turnabout: Life in a Coded World
- EIGHT Reluctant Flamboyance: Forties Escapism
- NINE Dark Passages: Forties Drama
- TEN Tempests and Teapots
- ELEVEN Something Evil
- TWELVE That Touch of Mink: Sex and the Sixties
- THIRTEEN The Wild Side
- FOURTEEN "I'm No Queer," He Lied
- FIFTEEN Open Season
- An Epilogue
- Notes on Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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