Queer images : a history of gay and lesbian film in America / Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin.
Author: Benshoff, Harry M.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2006.
ISBN: 0742519716 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742519724 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description: viii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series: Genre and beyond
Subject: Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Gays in motion pictures.
Homosexuality and motion pictures.
Motion pictures United States.
Contents: What is queer film history? -- From pansies to predators, queer characters in early American cinema -- Discreet charms, queer filmakers in classical Hollywood -- "Those wonderful people out there in the dark", queer audiences and classical Hollywood cinema -- Fear and loathing in postwar Hollywood -- Exploitation or art?, queer films beyond Hollywood -- Hollywood and the sexual revolution -- Producing pride, queers make movies -- Out of the closet and into the art house -- A matter of life and death, AIDS, activism, film and video -- Hollywood is burning, new queer cinema -- Queer eye for the straight Hollywood executive -- Queer independent film at the turn of the millennium.