Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan.
Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan.
Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.
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N305.389664/36
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xxii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Happiest Family in All the World! -- 2. Love Barbra -- 3. The Wreck of the Family -- 4. Like Home -- 5. Coming Out, with Al Pacino.
Publication information
Publisher
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999.
Series
Place of Publication
Wisconsin
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
Describing his favorite movies as if they told the story of his own life, Patrick Horrigan turns popular culture upside down and inside out. He tunnels back into the long, lazy afternoons of his conservative Catholic upbringing in suburban Pennsylvania where the movies offered salvation from boredom and self-loathing; he re-creates in loving, unemb...
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Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Living out.
Based on author's dissertation (Columbia University).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227).
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Date Copyright
c1999.
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Call Numbers
N305.389664/36
Record Identifier
74VvrX434EmZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvrX434EmZ
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ISBN
0299161641 (pbk.)
9780299161606 (cloth : alk. paper)
0299161609 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780299161644 (pbk.)
DDC
305.389664
MMS ID
991011348229702626
