Widescreen Dreams
Growing Up Gay at the Movies
Author(s)
Horrigan, Patrick E.
Collection
Big Ten Open BooksLanguage
EnglishAbstract
In 1973, a sweet-tempered, ferociously imaginative ten-year-old boy named Patrick Horrigan saw the TV premiere of the film version of Hello, Dolly! starring Barbra Streisand. His life would never be the same. Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies traces Horrigan’s development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Wiz.
Keywords
Cinema and media studies; Cultural studies; Gay and lesbian studiesDOI
10.3368/JABP7086ISBN
9780299161699, 9780299161644, 9780299161699, 9780299161699Publisher
The University of Wisconsin PressPublication date and place
Madison, 2001Classification
Gender studies, gender groups