ISBN:
0299161633
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9780299161637
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 227 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.] [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Living out
Parallel Title:
Print version Widescreen dreams
DDC:
305.38/9664
Keywords:
Horrigan, Patrick E
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Motion pictures Case studies Psychological aspects
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Gay men Case studies Psychology
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Gay men Biography
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Biografie
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
Describing his favorite movies as if they told the story of his own life, Patrick Horrigan turns popular culture upside down and inside out. He tunnels back into the long, lazy afternoons of his conservative Catholic upbringing in suburban Pennsylvania where the movies offered salvation from boredom and self-loathing; he re-creates in loving, unembarrassed detail his turbulent relationship with his mother, the first and most important in a series of strong women, both real and cinematic, who goaded him toward self-awareness; and he dramatizes his adolescent escape, both in fact and in celluloid fantasy, to the greatest, gayest city on earth, the Emerald City of daydreams, New York
Abstract:
In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Patrick's development from childhood to gay male adulthood as a series of encounters, sometimes mournful, sometimes hysterically funny, with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s
Description / Table of Contents:
The Happiest Family in All the World!Outtakes ILove BarbraOuttakes IIThe Wreck of the FamilyOuttakes IIILike HomeOuttakes IVComing Out, with Al PacinoOuttakes V.
Note:
Based on author's dissertation (Columbia University)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227)
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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