Coming together : the cinematic elaboration of gay male life, 1945-1979 / Ryan Powell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Ryan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Gay people in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Summary:

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger and the Gay Girls Riding Club to the gay liberation-era hardcore films and domestic dramas of Joe Gage and James Bidgood, Powell illuminates how central filmmaking and exhibition were to gay socializing and worldmaking. Unearthing scores of films and a trove of film-related ephemera, Coming Together persuasively unsettles popular histories that center Stonewall as a ground zero for gay liberation and visibility. Powell asks how this generation of movie-making--which defiantly challenged legal and cultural norms around sexuality and gender--provided, and may still provide, meaningful models for living.

Contents:

Picturing the underground

The cinematic authoring of gay life

Toward a gay mainstream

Liberation porn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-256), filmography (pages 257-259), and index.

ISBN:

9780226634234

022663423X

9780226634371

022663437X

OCLC:

1051685203