Gay Men at the Movies
Subtitle: Cinema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Community
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781783205967
Subjects: Homosexuality in motion pictures; Motion pictures, australia
Description: Cinema has long played a major role in the formation of community among marginalized groups, and this book details that process for gay men in Sydney, Australia from the 1950s to the present. Scott McKinnon builds the book from a variety of sources, including film reviews, media reports, personal memoirs, oral histories, and a striking range of films, all deployed to answer the question of understanding cinema-going as a moment of connection to community and identity how the experience of seeing these films and being part of an audience helped to build a community among the gay men of Sydney in the period.