{"product_id":"screened-out-richard-barrios-9780415923286","title":"Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall","description":"\u003cp\u003eRapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, \u003cem\u003eScreened Out\u003c\/em\u003e shows how much gay and lesbian lives have shaped the Big Screen. Spanning popular American cinema from the 1900s until today, distinguished film historian Richard Barrios presents a rich, compulsively readable analysis of how Hollywood has used and depicted gays and the mixed signals it has given us: Marlene in a top hat, Cary Grant in a negligee, a pansy cowboy in \u003cem\u003eThe Dude Wrangler\u003c\/em\u003e. Such iconoclastic images, Barrios argues, send powerful messages about tragedy and obsession, but also about freedom and compassion, even empowerment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies - and the real world -- have made since Stonewall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaptivating, myth-breaking, and funny, \u003cem\u003eScreened Out\u003c\/em\u003e is for all film aficionados and for anyone who has sat in a dark movie theater and drawn strength and a sense of identity from what they saw on screen, no matter how fleeting or coded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Barrios\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041592328X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415923286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.28w x 1.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/13\/2003 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambda Book Report\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2003 pg. 28","brand":"Richard Barrios","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086666313983,"sku":"9780415923286","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d00a37cc-48b4-432f-a2f7-73eac29b4347.jpg?v=1769095905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/screened-out-richard-barrios-9780415923286","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}