Behind the screen
Subtitle: how gays and lesbians shaped Hollywood, 1910-1969
By: William J. Mann.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Gay motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography; Gay motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[401]-407) and index.
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.