Behind the screen
Subtitle: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
By: William J. Mann
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780670030170
Subjects: Filmacteurs; Gay motion picture producers and directors; Filmproducenten; Homoseksuelen; Biography; Filmregisseurs; Homosexualität; Gay motion picture actors and actresses; Film
Description: From Goodreads:

William Mann's Behind the Screen is a thoughtful and eye-opening look at the totality of the gay experience in studio-era Hollywood. Much has been written about how gays have been portrayed in the movies but no book -- until now -- has looked at their influence behind the screen. Whether out of or in the closet, gays and lesbians have from the very beginning played a significant role in shaping Hollywood. Gay actors were among the earliest matinee idols and gay directors have long been among the most popular and commercially successful filmmakers. In fact, gay set and costume designers created the very look of Hollywood.With this landmark book, Mann fills a void in the Hollywood history archives. Written in the tradition of Neal Gabler's An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood and based on hundreds of hours of interviews with survivors of this golden age, Behind the Screen is destined to become a classic of film literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-407) and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Great gods: the first gay idols, 1910-1925; title: Designing men: sets, costumes, and the gay-straight split, 1916-1933; title: Girls with imagination: Hollywood's first lesbians, 1919-1935; title: Sex without sin: the gay subculture of early Hollywood, 1922-1935; title: Wild pansies: Hollywood's sissies and the production-code clampdown, 1930-1941; title: Auteur theories: the gay directors and producers of Hollywood's golden age, 1935-1955; title: Queer work: the "behind-the-scenes queens" of the Hollywood studios, 1935-1955; title: War spirit: the gay awakening during World War II and the post-war years, 1941-1955; title: Pinkos, commies, queers: Hollywood's gays and the Cold-War inquisitions, 1945-1960; title: The bold ones: the Stonewall generation and the end of the studio era, 1953-1969.