The silver screen : color me lavender / Couch Potato Productions ; a film by Mark Rappaport.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Rappaport, Mark, film director.

Butler, Dan, 1954- narrator.

Kino Classics, publisher.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Gender identity.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, b&w and color ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Color me lavender

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2022]

Language Note:

English dialogue; optional English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, all regions; widescreen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Audio 2.0 stereo.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

This film compiles a strong current of homoerotic subtexts in Hollywood films from the thirties through the fifties.The film is a rich and funny meditation on American sexual identity, film history and culture. You will never look at Westerns the same way again.

From the groundbreaking director of Rock Hudson's Home Movies and From the Journals of Jean Seberg comes another witty and enlightening essay on the gay undercurrents of Hollywood's Golden Age. Dan Butler (Frasier) acts as tour guide as he uncovers a squeamish fascination with gay eroticism and camp. The film is a rich and funny meditation on American sexual identity, film history, and culture. You will never look at Westerns the same way again.

Participant:

Dan Butler.

On-screen narrator, Dan Butler.

Credits:

Camera, Nancy Schrieber; editors, Egon Kirincic, Caleb Oglesby.

Notes:

Title from sell sheet.

Originally produced in 1997.

Special features: short films by Mark Rappaport: The vanity tables of Douglas Sirk (2014), The double life of Paul Henreid (2017), Martin und Hans (2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

1326277111

Publisher Number:

738329259341

K25934 Kino Classics