Gay men at the movies : cinema, memory and the history of a gay male community / by Scott McKinnon.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and gay men--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Motion pictures and gay men.

Homosexuality--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.).

Homosexuality.

Australia.

Physical Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histories, and a striking range of films, all deployed to answer the question of how to understand cinemagoing as a moment of connection to community and identity-how the experience of seeing these films and being part of an audience helped to build a community among the gay men of Sydney in the period. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Friends of Dorothy in the Emerald City 23

Chapter 1 The 1950s - Censored from view for all to see 29

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1950s Sydney 31

Regular guys and 'sister boys': Tea and Sympathy 43

Friends of Tom Lee: Rebel without a Cause, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Some Like it Hot 49

Chapter 2 The 1960s - Undeniable 57

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1960s Sydney 59

Poor unfortunate souls: Victim and Advise and Consent 68

The real lives of English youth: A Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys sand if... 73

Chapter 3 The 1970s - Strike up the band 83

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1970s Sydney 85

A memory of times gone by: The Boys in the Band 97

The thrill of the new: Sunday Bloody Sunday and A Very Natural Thing 101

Chapter 4 The 1980s - Arriving at last, leaving too soon 109

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1980s Sydney 111

The Hollywood gaze: Fame, Partners, Cruising and Making Love 120

An independent eye: Taxi Zum Kio 128

Chapter 5 The 1990s - When we were cool 135

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1990s Sydney 137

Made for them or watched by us? The Sum of Us 144

To enlighten and remember: Philadelphia and Longtime Companion 151

Chapter 6 The 2000s - In the shadow of the mountain 161

Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 2000s Sydney 163

The film that got us good: Brokeback Mountain 171

Staying home or going to the festival: Another Gay Movie and Shelter 178

Part 2 Memories of Dorothy: Memory, Movies, Gay Men 193

Chapter 7 Gay kids at the movies - Movie memory and queer childhoods 199

On-screen memories: Childhood 201

Remembering childhood cinema-going 205

Chapter 8 Others like us - Movie memory and the search for community 211

Movie memories at the movies: Identity 213

Learning, reciting and refuting memory 216

Chapter 9 We were there - Movie memory and the search for a queer past 223

Heroes and villains: Braveheart and Alexander 227

Creating 'our' history: Stonewall and Milk 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783205967

1783205962

OCLC:

960294881

Publisher Number:

60002123924