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An edition of Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969 (2001)

Behind the screen

how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969

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William Mann's Behind the Screen is a thoughtful and eye-opening look at the totality of the gay experience in studio-era Hollywood. Much has been written about how gays have been portrayed in the movies but no book -- until now -- has looked at their influence behind the screen. Whether out of or in the closet, gays and lesbians have from the very beginning played a significant role in shaping Hollywood. Gay actors were among the earliest matinee idols and gay directors have long been among the most popular and commercially successful filmmakers. In fact, gay set and costume designers created the very look of Hollywood.With this landmark book, Mann fills a void in the Hollywood history archives. Written in the tradition of Neal Gabler's An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and based on hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors of this golden age, Behind the Screen is destined to become a classic of film literature.

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Penguin Books
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English
Pages
422

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Biography Gay motion picture producers and directors Gay motion picture actors and actresses Homosexuality in motion pictures Motion pictures, history Gays LGBTQ film and television Filmacteurs Filmproducenten Homoseksuelen Film Filmregisseurs Homosexualität Motion picture actors and actresses, united states Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures, biography Gays, history United states, biography

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Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
2002, Penguin Books
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Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
October 29, 2002, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: Behind the screen
Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
2002, Penguin Books
in English
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Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
2001, Viking
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Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
October 11, 2001, Viking Adult
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Table of Contents

Great gods: the first gay idols, 1910-1925 --
Designing men: sets, costumes, and the gay-straight split, 1916-1933 --
Girls with imagination: Hollywood's first lesbians, 1919-1935 --
Sex without sin: the gay subculture of early Hollywood, 1922-1935 --
Wild pansies: Hollywood's sissies and the production-code clampdown, 1930-1941 --
Auteur theories: the gay directors and producers of Hollywood's golden age, 1935-1955 --
Queer work: the "behind-the-scenes queens" of the Hollywood studios, 1935-1955 --
War spirit: the gay awakening during World War II and the post-war years, 1941-1955 --
Pinkos, commies, queers: Hollywood's gays and the Cold-War inquisitions, 1945-1960 --
The bold ones: the stonewall generation and the end of the studio era, 1953-1969.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-407) and index.

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Biography.

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Library of Congress
PN2286.5.M36

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xxiv, 422 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
422

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OL15567640M
Internet Archive
behindscreenhowg0000mann
ISBN 10
0142001147
OCLC/WorldCat
51052142
LibraryThing
5232
Goodreads
257510

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OL522473W

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