Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy
- ISBN-10
- 1786720639
- ISBN-13
- 9781786720634
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-26
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Shane Brown
Description
Since the publication of Vito Russo's seminal study The Celluloid Closet in 1981, much has been written about the representation of queer characters on screen. Until now, however, relatively little attention has been paid to how queer sexualities were portrayed in films from the silent and early sound period. By looking in detail at a succession of recently-found films and revisiting others, Shane Brown examines images of male-male intimacy, buddy relationships and romantic friendships in European and American films made prior to 1934, including Different from the Others and All Quiet on the Western Front. He places these films within their socio-political and scientific context and sheds new light on how they were intended to be viewed and how they were actually perceived. In doing so, Brown offers his readers a unique insight into a little known area of early cinema, queer studies and social history.
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