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Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horrigan, Patrick E.
- Series:
- Living out.
- Living out
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horrigan, Patrick E.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- Gay men--United States--Psychology--Case studies.
- Motion pictures--United States--Psychological aspects--Case studies.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan's development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Wiz.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Happiest Family in All the World!
- Outtakes I
- 2. Love Barbra
- Outtakes II
- 3. The Wreck of the Family
- Outtakes III
- 4. Like Home
- Outtakes IV
- 5. Coming Out, with Al Pacino
- Outtakes V
- Notes
- Works Cited.
- Notes:
- Based on author's dissertation (Columbia University).
- Includes bibliographical references (p.225-227).
- CC BY-NC
- ISBN:
- 9786613655042
- 9780299161699
- 0299161692
- 9781280678110
- 1280678119
- 9780299161637
- 0299161633
- OCLC:
- 813844992
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