The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "an impressive study" and written with incisive wit and searing perceptionthe definitive, highly acclaimed landmark work on the portrayal of homosexuality in film.
Praised by the Chicago Tribune as "an impressive study" and written with incisive wit and searing perceptionthe definitive, highly acclaimed landmark work on the portrayal of homosexuality in film.
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Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN:
9780060137045 (0060137045)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Art,
Culture,
Film,
Sexuality,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Lesbian
[These notes were made in 1984; I read the 1981 Harper & Row edition:]. You wouldn't think, in fact, there would be much to write on the subject of gays in the movies, at least up until the 1960s. And, in fact, this book deals, for its first two-thirds, with (a) suppression of gay themes by the cens...
42 years ago
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