Lecture 9: Coming Out
Beautiful Thing (Hettie MacDonald 1996)
Some suggested reading
- Ammar, Osama (2002)
'Outing the Narrative: The positioning of coming-out as cultural practice by narrative
cinema through narrative disclosure, representation of the closet and attitudes towards homophobia'
[WWW document]URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/ota9902.zip (undergraduate dissertation)
- Clum, John M. (2002)
He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies.
London: Palgrave
- 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
- Griffiths, Robin (Ed) (2006)
British Queer Cinema.London: Routledge
- Hadleigh, Boze (2001)
The Lavender Screen: The Gay and Lesbian Films - Their Stars, Makers,
Characters, and Critics. New York: Citadel
- Harvey, Jonathan (1996)
Beautiful Thing (playscript). London: Methuen
- Keller, James R (2002)
Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland
- Murray, Raymond (1996)
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian
Film and Video. New York: Plume/Penguin [a useful reference text]
- Olson, Jenni (1996)
The Ultimate Guide to Lesbian & Gay Film and Video.
San Francisco: Serpent's Tail Press [a reference list]
- Parish, James Robert (1993)
Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema: Plots,
Critiques, Casts and Credits for 272 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Hollywood
Releases. New York(?): McFarland & Company
- Russo, Vito (1987)
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies.
New York: HarperCollins
- Stewart, Steve (1994)
Gay Hollywood Film & Video Guide: 75 Years of Gay & Lesbian
Images in the Movies. New York(?): Companion Publications [another reference list]
- Thorneycroft-Smith, Julian (2004)
'Coming Out in Films'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/jlt0301.doc (student essay)
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