Lecture One:
The Celluloid Closet
(book by Vito Russo 1987; documentary by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman 1995)
Some suggested reading
Barrios, Richard (2003)
Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall
.
London: Routledge
Bourne, Stephen (1996)
Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971
.
London: Cassell
Dyer, Richard (Ed.) (1977)
Gays and Film
.
London: British Film Institute
Dyer, Richard (1990)
Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film
.
London: Routledge
Dyer, Richard (1993)
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation
.
London: Routledge
Ehrenstein, David (2000)
Open Secrets: Gay Hollywood 1928-2000
.
New York: HarperCollins
Mackinnon, Kenneth (2003)
Representing Men: Maleness and Masculinity in the Media
.
London: Arnold
Maupin, Armistead [screenplay writer] (1996)
Summary of the Script of
The Celluloid Closet
Powrie, Phil, Ann Davies & Bruce Babington (Eds) (2004)
The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema.
London: Wallflower Press
Reuter, Donald F (2004)
Fabulous: A Loving, Luscious and Lighthearted Look at Film from the Gay Perspective
.
New York: Broadway Books
Russo, Vito (1987)
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies
.
New York: HarperCollins
Key Films
Film
The Celluloid Closet
(Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman 1995)
Caught Looking
(Constantine Giannaris 1991)
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