The Celluloid Closet, With Audio Description.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Sony Pictures Classics, 1996.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

THE CELLULOID CLOSET is the film version of author Vito Russo's landmark book by the same name. Filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, who have previously won an Academy Award for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, bring this book to life. THE CELLULOID CLOSET explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century. With clips from over 100 Hollywood movies and interviews with many of the filmmakers and actors who created them (including Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, and Gore Vidal), THE CELLULOID CLOSET is an epic story -- by turns surprising, hilarious, and disturbing.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed January 22, 2024).