Coming Together: The Cinematic Elaboration of Gay Male Life, 1945-1979 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226634371)

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.

Author: Ryan Powell
ISBN-10: 022663437X
ISBN-13: 9780226634371
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2020