Introduction: Something About a Well Chapter One: Silent Existences Chapter Two: Speaking Plainly Chapter Three: Codes of Behavior Chapter Four: The Naked Moon Chapter Five: Pansies and Lesbos of 1933 Chapter Six: Legions and Decency Chapter Seven: Turnabout: Life in a Coded World Chapter Eight: Reluctant Flamboyance: Forties Escapism Chapter Nine: Dark Passages: Forties Drama Chapter Ten: Tempests and Teapots Chapter Eleven: Something Evil Chapter Twelve: That Touch of Mink: Sex and the Sixties Chapter Thirteen: The Wild Side Chapter Fourteen: I'm no queer, he lied Chapter Fifteen: Open Season An Epilogue
Richard Barrios, a native of Louisiana, lives in New York City. He is the author of A Song in the Dark: The Birthof the Musical Film. He holds degrees in cinema studies, music history, and literature, and has worked in the film industry and music publishing.
"A finely nuanced analysis of how gays and lesbians were presented
on screen from the 1920s through the 1970s." -- G.M. Kramer, Lambda
Book Report
"Richard Barrios has turned his amused, intelligent eye to the
depiction of gay men and lesbians in pre-Stonewall Hollywood
films...Barrios has compiled hundreds of queer cinematic examples,
from the little-known Algie, theMiner (1912) to the iconic The Boys
in the Band (1970). His comments are shrewd and his coverage
complete. Following up on Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet,
Screened Out reminds us that 'film has continued to hold up its
strange mirror-alternately reflecting, repressing, ridiculing,
suggesting, condemning, questioning, and even, on occasion,
accepting'"." -- Reed Woodhouse, outFront Books
"Building on the legacy of The Celluloid Closet , Barrios manages
to be both encyclopedic and breezy; taking the reader on a
comfortable and well documented tour of 20th century American
screen images of homosexuality. ScreenedOut is a must-have for film
buffs and queer buffs and will be the standard reference work and
source for all future work in this area." -- Esther Newton, author
of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay
"...a comprehensive and lucidly written contribution to the history
of queer images in Hollywood films, rich in sharp analysis and
fresh perspectives. It is also a must-read for anyone trying to
make sense of the cultural climate leading up to the Stonewall
riots, which ushered in the modern gay rights movement. An
important book and a terrific resource." -- Michelangelo Signorile,
author of Queen in America
"Exhaustive and well-researched, as well as a compulsively fun
read." -- Marrit Ingman, The Austin Chronicle
"Along the way, [Barrios] introduces some wonderfully oddball films
that will be heating up my VCR." -- Steve Weinstein, New York Blade
News
"Barrios's work here is invaluable, and more necessary than ever
before...By giving this history of queer images in mainstream
American culture, Barrios has illuminated the present as well as
the past." -- Michael Bronski, ThePhoenix.com
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