Queer images : a history of gay and lesbian film in America /

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Author / Creator:	Benshoff, Harry M., 1963-
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2006.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 321 p.).
Language:	English
Series:	Genre and beyond Genre and beyond.
Subject:	Homosexuality in motion pictures. Gays in motion pictures. Homosexuality and motion pictures. Motion pictures -- United States. Homosexualité au cinéma. Homosexuels au cinéma. Homosexualité et cinéma. Cinéma -- États-Unis. Gays in motion pictures. Homosexuality and motion pictures. Homosexuality in motion pictures. Motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference. Homosexualität Homoseksualiteit. Films. Film. Performing Arts. Gay/Lesbian Interest. United States. USA. Electronic books. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11183148

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Other authors / contributors:	Griffin, Sean.
ISBN:	9780742568570 0742568571 0742519716 (cloth : alk. paper) 0742519724 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780742519725 9780742519718
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	'Queer Images' chronicles the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer sexualities over 100 years in American film. This book explores not only the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen, but also the work of queer filmmakers and thecultural histories of queer audiences.
Other form:	Print version: Queer images Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2006. 0742519716 (cloth : alk. paper)

Table of 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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