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The celluloid closet : homosexuality in the movies / Vito Russo.
LIBRA PN1995.9.H55 R8 1981
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russo, Vito.
- Series:
- Harper colophon books ; CN 871.
- Harper Colophon books ; CN 871
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality in motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1981]
- Summary:
- Examines the portrayal of homosexual characters in the movies and how it reflects society's beliefs and misconceptions.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On the Closet Mentality
- Who's a sissy?: Homosexuality According to Tinseltown page
- The way we weren't: The Invisible Years page
- Frightening the horses: Out of the Closets and into the Shadows
- Struggle: Fear and Loathing in Gay Hollywood
- Filmography
- Necrology
- Index.
- Notes:
- Filmography: pages 247-260.
- Includes index.
- Gay Book Award (American Library Association), 1982
- Stonewall Book Award, Winner, 1982
- Other Format:
- Online version: Russo, Vito. Celluloid closet.
- ISBN:
- 0060137045
- 9780060137045
- 0060908718
- 9780060908713
- 0063370190
- 9780063370197
- OCLC:
- 7305961
- Online:
- Publisher description
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