Behind the screen

how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969

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William J. Mann
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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
422

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Behind the screen: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
2002, Penguin Books
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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.

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

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xxiv, 422 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
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OL17728848M
ISBN 10
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OCLC/WorldCat
51052142
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