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,
i Screened Out /i 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 i The Dude
Wrangler /i . Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send
powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about
freedom and compassion, even empowerment. br br 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. br br Captivating, myth-breaking, and funny, i Screened
Out /i 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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