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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.

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HWLC 8th Floor Adult PN1995.9.H55B44 2006 Hardcover Not checked out 12/14/2011
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West Belmont Adult PN1995.9.H55B44 2006 Hardcover Not checked out 10/07/2009