Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series)

by Harry M. Benshoff

Other authorsSean Griffin (Author)
Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

DRAMA Bens

Publication

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2005), 336 pages

Description

Queer Images chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book of its kind, it explores the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen as well as the work of queer filmmakers and the cultural histories of queer audiences--from the works of discreetly homosexual filmmakers during Hollywood's Golden Age and classical Hollywood's attempt to purge sex perversion from films, to queer exploitation and physique films, cinematic responses to AIDS, and how contemporary Hollywood deals wi

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

0742519724 / 9780742519725

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