Coming together : the cinematic elaboration of gay male life, 1945-1979 /

Coming together : the cinematic elaboration of gay male life, 1945-1979 /

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Author / Creator:	Powell, Ryan, author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Homosexuality in motion pictures. Gays in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Social aspects. Gays in motion pictures. Homosexuality in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11937644

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ISBN:	9780226634234 022663423X 9780226634371 022663437X 9780226634401
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256), filmography (pages 257-259), and index.
Summary:	In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger and the Gay Girls Riding Club to the gay liberation-era hardcore films and domestic dramas of Joe Gage and James Bidgood, Powell illuminates how central filmmaking and exhibition were to gay socializing and worldmaking. Unearthing scores of films and a trove of film-related ephemera, Coming Together persuasively unsettles popular histories that center Stonewall as a ground zero for gay liberation and visibility. Powell asks how this generation of movie-making--which defiantly challenged legal and cultural norms around sexuality and gender--provided, and may still provide, meaningful models for living.

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Call Number:	PN1995.9.H55P69 2019
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