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Author:   Scott McKinnon
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781783205967

ISBN 10:   1783205962
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   02 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction   Part One: Friends of Dorothy in the Emerald City   Chapter 1 – The 1950s – Censored from view for all to see Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1950s Sydney Regular guys and ‘sister boys’: Tea and Sympathy Friends of Tom Lee: Rebel without a Cause, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Some Like it Hot   Chapter 2 – The 1960s – Undeniable  Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1960s Sydney Poor unfortunate souls: Victim and Advise and Consent The real lives of English youth: A Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys and If...   Chapter 3 – The 1970s – Strike up the band  Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1970s Sydney A memory of times gone by: The Boys in the Band The thrill of the new: Sunday Bloody Sunday and A Very Natural Thing   Chapter 4 – The 1980s – Arriving at last, leaving too soon Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1980s Sydney The Hollywood gaze: Fame, Partners, Cruising and Making Love An independent eye: Taxi Zum Klo   Chapter 5 – The 1990s – When we were cool  Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 1990s Sydney Made for them or watched by us? The Sum of Us To enlighten and remember: Philadelphia and Longtime Companion   Chapter 6 – The 2000s – In the shadow of the mountain Gay space, cinema-going and censorship in 2000s Sydney The film that got us good: Brokeback Mountain Staying home or going to the festival: Another Gay Movie and Shelter   Part Two: Memories of Dorothy: Memories, Movies, Gay Men   Chapter 7 – Gay kids at the movies – Movie memory and queer childhoods On-screen memories: Childhood Remembering childhood cinema-going   Chapter 8 – Others like us – Movie memory and the search for community Movie memories at the movies: Identity Learning, reciting and refuting memory   Chapter 9 – We were there – Movie memory and the search for a queer past Heroes and villains: Braveheart and Alexander Creating ‘our’ history: Stonewall and Milk   Conclusion: Gay Men at the Movies

Reviews

"'The book is not a history of gay films or a history of gay men as film actors, writers, directors, or producers. McKinnon's focus is on gay men as film audiences rather than as filmmakers. The films considered here are popular cinema, meaning movies screened in commercial theaters and reviewed in the mainstream media. McKinnon is not interested in developing new insights or analyses of these films but rather in understanding ""the historical processes of interpretation and meaning-making undertaken by audiences."" At the movies, we engage not only with a film, but also with a space, with an audience, friends, and a neighborhood, so that going to movies is an act of social and cultural interaction and participation. Thus to understand how movies have shaped gay culture, identity, and community, we need to contemplate the place, context, and ongoing memories of film viewing that become part of our individual histories and a collective past. ' -- The Bay Area Reporter, Brian Bromberger"

Films based on well-known homosexual figures or based on moments from gay history (Stonewall, Milk) can be mobilized as part of our current history. Past history can be reclaimed as part of my history. For McKinnon, each generation makes its own meanings of movies and creates new memories on which to contemplate, debate, dispute, build, and celebrate new forms of identity. McKinnon has managed in coherent language to show us that as much as movies are made by us, they also make us who we are, by shaping our gay personal and community memories. --The Bay Area Reporter

Author Information

Scott McKinnon is a postdoctoral research fellow at Western Sydney University and an honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.

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