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Richard Barrios’ Screened Out offers a comprehensive survey of American cinema’s portrayal of gay people over the past century. Drawing on studio records, scripts, censorship documents, critical reviews, and audience memories, Barrios shows how films have alternately reinforced stereotypes—such as rapacious dykes, self‑loathing closeted cases, and sadomasochistic rich kids—and presented more humanized, sympathetic images. The book explores how these depictions reflected broader social attitudes and how they simultaneously served as powerful messages about tragedy, oppression, freedom, and compassion. Barrios concludes with a caution that progress in cinema has not necessarily translated into real‑world equality since the Stonewall era.
First publish date: October 11, 2002
Genre: Arts & Culture/Art History
Authors: Richard Barrios
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