The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA Portrayals in American Film

The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA  Portrayals in American Film
Author: Erica Joan Dymond,Salvador Jiménez Murguía
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2022-10-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781538153918

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"This fascinating reference explores the depiction of the LGBTQIA+ community in over 200 works from the past fifty years of American film history. It will not only educate and inform, but also help guide readers to see injustice more clearly and to inspire art that is both inclusive and thoughtful"--

The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television

The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television
Author: Claude Summers
Publsiher: Cleis Press Start
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781573448826

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From Hollywood films to TV soap operas, from Vegas extravaganzas to Broadway theater to haute couture, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 200 entries and 200 photos that document the irrepressible impact of queer creative artists on popular culture. How did Liberace’s costumes almost kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as “the best white cheerleader in Detroit?” For these answers and more, fans can dip into The Queer Encyclopedia of Film, Theater, and Popular Culture. Drawn from the fascinating online encyclopedia of queer arts and culture, www.glbtq.com — which the Advocate dubbed “the Encyclopedia Brittaniqueer” — this may be the only reference book in which RuPaul and Jean Cocteau jostle for space. From the porn industry to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, from bodybuilding to Dorothy Arzner, it’s a queer, queer world, and The Queer Encyclopedia is the indispensable guide: readable, authoritative, and concise. And perfect to read by candelabra. (The answers to the two questions above: from the dry cleaning fumes, Lily Tomlin.)

Queer Cinema in America

Queer Cinema in America
Author: Aubrey Malone
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre: Gays in motion pictures
ISBN: 9798216003687

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This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could lead to horrendous abuse. Just as American society has changed dramatically from decade to decade, so has queer cinema. Taking us from a time when LGBTQ characters were often represented as either caricatures or figures of farce, this lively yet authoritative reference explores the sea change ushered in by such stars as Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s and '40s, androgynous figures such as Montgomery Clift, James Dean, and Marlon Brando in the '50s, and closeted gay men such as Rock Hudson and Liberace, whose double lives were exposed by the scourge of AIDS. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on stars, directors, films, themes, and other topics related to queer cinema in America, including films and persons from outside the U.S. who nonetheless figured prominently in America popular culture. Entries cite works for further reading, sidebars provide snippets of interesting trivia, a timeline highlights key events, and a selected, general, end-of-work bibliography cites the most important major works on the topic.

Queer Cinema in America

Queer Cinema in America
Author: Aubrey Malone
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781440867163

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This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could lead to horrendous abuse. Just as American society has changed dramatically from decade to decade, so has queer cinema. Taking us from a time when LGBTQ characters were often represented as either caricatures or figures of farce, this lively yet authoritative reference explores the sea change ushered in by such stars as Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in the 1930s and '40s, androgynous figures such as Montgomery Clift, James Dean, and Marlon Brando in the '50s, and closeted gay men such as Rock Hudson and Liberace, whose double lives were exposed by the scourge of AIDS. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on stars, directors, films, themes, and other topics related to queer cinema in America, including films and persons from outside the U.S. who nonetheless figured prominently in America popular culture. Entries cite works for further reading, sidebars provide snippets of interesting trivia, a timeline highlights key events, and a selected, general, end-of-work bibliography cites the most important major works on the topic.

Horrifying Children

Horrifying Children
Author: Lauren Stephenson,Robert Edgar,John Marland
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2024-03-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781501390548

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Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography. There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children's television and literature of the late twentieth century. In particular, the 1970s, '80s and '90s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of the contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this period dominated the world of childhood entertainment, drawing freely upon literature and popular culture, like the Garbage Pail Kids and Stranger Things, and much of it continues to resonate powerfully with the generation of cultural producers (fiction writers, screenwriters, directors, musicians and artists) that grew up watching the weird, the eerie and the horrific: the essence of 21st-century Hauntology. In these terms this book is not about children's television as it exists now, but rather as it features as a facet of memory in the 21st century. As such it is the legacy of these television programmes that is at the core of Horrifying Children. The 'haunting' of adults by what we have seen on the screen is crucial to the study. This collection directly addresses that which 'scared us' in the past insomuch as there is a correlation between individual and collective cultural memory, with some chapters providing an opportunity for situating existing explorations and understandings of Gothic and Horror TV within a hauntological and experiential framework.

The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films

The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films
Author: Salvador Jimenez Murguía,Erica Joan Dymond,Kristina Fennelly
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1538115514

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The Encyclopedia of Sexism in Film discusses sexism on screen--both blatant and subtle--in more than 150 motion pictures. This volume, examine the images, scenes, and dialogue that both reflect and shape the ongoing struggles with gender roles, sex, and orientation across decades and genres, in films ranging from 9 to 5 to The X-Men.

Images in the Dark

Images in the Dark
Author: Raymond Murray
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1998
Genre: Homosexuality in motion pictures
ISBN: PSU:000053258366

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This fully revised and updated edition reviews over 3000 films and videos. As a companion to gay and lesbian cinema, it also covers homosexual directors, gay characters and plots, sympathetic film-makers and gay icons.

The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films

The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films
Author: Salvador Jimenez Murguía,Erica Joan Dymond,Kristina Fennelly
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781538115527

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The treatment—and mistreatment—of women throughout history continues to be a necessary topic of discussion, in order for progress to be made and equality to be achieved. While current articles and books expose troubling truths of the gender divide, modern cinema continues to provide problematic depictions of such behavior—with a few heartening exceptions. The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films closely examines the many, pervasive forms of sexism in contemporary productions—from clueless comedies to superhero blockbusters. In more than 130 entries, this volume explores a number of cinematic grievances including: the objectification of women’s bodies the limited character types available for female performers the lack of sexual diversity on the screen the limited range of desirable traits for female performers the use of gratuitous sex the narrow focus on heteronormative depictions of courtship and romance The films discussed here include As Good as It Gets (1999), Beauty and The Beast (2017), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Do the Right Thing (1989), Easy A (2010), The Forty-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Hidden Figures (2016), Lost in Translation (2003), Mulholland Drive (2001), Showgirls (1995), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Star Wars (1977), Thelma & Louise (1991), Tootsie (1982), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and 9 to 5 (1980). By digging deeply into more insidious forms of sexual/gender discrimination, this book illuminates one more aspect of women’s lives that deserves to be understood. Offering insights and analysis from more than fifty contributors, The Encyclopedia of Sexism in American Films will appeal to scholars of cinema, gender studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.