Girl Reel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781566890946)

All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a wasteland for women in general and lesbians in particular looking for strong images of themselves, Bonnie Morris gives readers a front row seat on a life growing up and coming out at the movies. Morris writes, This is a collection of movie stories-by which I mean recollections of events, images, turning points generated by specific moviegoing experiences, and specific movies and the book is built around the catalyst of going to a movie as a chunk of formative girl identity. Girl Reel is a raucous, rollicking, sometimes acerbic look at the powerful influence the entertainment industry has on our community, family, and social lives.

A must-have for all film buffs, Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culture-how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and chronicling the move of lesbian and gay issues from the margins to the mainstream, Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers / viewers.

Bonnie J. Morris is a professor of women's studies at George Washington University and Georgetown University. Born to Hollywood parents-her father was an extra in The Day the Earth Stood Still; her mother was an assistant to the movie star Greer Garson- Morris is the author of Eden Built by Eves (Alyson 1999) and two books on Jewish women's history, and she is a contributor to more than fifty books and journals.

Author: Bonnie J. Morris
ISBN-10: 1566890942
ISBN-13: 9781566890946
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2000
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.57w x 0.58d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/22/2000 pg. 87
Library Journal 07/01/2000 pg. 108
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1806
Booklist 06/01/2001 pg. 1815
Publishers Weekly 05/15/2000