Fred Halsted (R): L.A. Plays Itself - The Fred Halsted Collection

Inkl. Sextool, The Sex Garage. USA 1972-1975 (Restaurierte Fassungen), engl. OF, dt. UT, 196 min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Der US-amerikanischen Pornodarsteller und Regisseur Fred Halsted (1941-1989) galt bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten als Legende: Sein selbst erschaffenes Image als in Leder gekleideter Sadist macht ihn über die schwule Subkultur hinaus berühmt - und zu einem der ersten offen schwulen Sexsymbole. Seine transgressiven Filme, die freizügig Hardcore-Sex, SM und andere Fetisch-Praktiken zeigten, waren für das Erotikkino bahnbrechend und schickten Schockwellen ... Weiterlesen

Boyd McDonald: Cruising the Movies

A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV. USA 2015, 304 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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MIT Press
»Cruising the Movies« was Boyd McDonald's »sexual guide« to televised cinema, originally published by the Gay Presses of New York in 1985. A compendium of real-life sexual stories that is part pornography, part ethnography - McDonald in his film writing reveals both his studious and sardonic sides. Many of the texts in »Cruising the Movies« were inspired by McDonald's attentive ... Weiterlesen

Emanuel Levy: Gay Directors, Gay Films?

Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters. USA 2015, 392 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 25.95
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Columbia University Press
Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors (Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters), this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the 20th century, gay characters and gay themes were both ... Weiterlesen

Cindy Patton: L.A. Plays Itself / Boys in the Sand

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2014, 160 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A »Queer Film Classic« on two groundbreaking gay films from the early 1970s, both of which exemplify the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. »L.A. Plays Itself« and »Boys in the Sand« were both gay art house porn films released within months of each other at a theatre in New York in 1972. »L.A. ... Weiterlesen

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart: Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema

Becoming Visible. USA/UK 2013, 183 pp., brochure, € 45.99
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Scarecrow
Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as »Philadelphia«, »Boys Don't Cry«, and »Brokeback Mountain«. The author explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the ... Weiterlesen

B. Ruby Rich: New Queer Cinema

The Director's Cut. USA 2013, 322 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the »Village Voice« in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince: 50 Years of Queer Cinema

500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made. USA 2010, 502 pp., brochure, € 23.99
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The world's production of 50 years of GLBTQ cinema has shattered the door to the celluloid closet. Thanks to this, and to a flood of classics re-released in DVD format, a brave new world of queer iconography has emerged for film junkies. This book documents these trends. From the tawdry to the beautiful, »The Love That Dared not Speak its ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Clark Gable

Tormented Star. USA 2008, 287 pp., brochure, € 14.89
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Clarke Gable - the archetypal male of his era. He was named »King of Hollywood« in 1938. But as the author of this uncensored biography reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality. Bret recounts Gable's failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye toward his affairs with actors Earl ... Weiterlesen

Jenny Olson (R): Homo Promo

UK 2006, engl. OF, 90 min., € 29.99
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This collection of vintage queer movie trailers offers a crash course in lesbian, gay, bi and transgender movie history. The DVD collection catalogues virtually every mainstream queer-themed film produced between 1953 and 1977. It starts with the famous underground smash »Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)«, progressing through to »The Boys in the Band«, and ending with the drag ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. USA 2005, 468 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors ... Weiterlesen

Christian B. Thomsen: Fassbinder

USA 2004, 358 pp., brochure, € 30.79
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Rainer W. Fassbinder was the most innovative practioner of New German Cinema. He worked at breakneck speed and in 14 years made 44 films. Fassbinder ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity, and his films detail the desperate yearning for love and freedom and the many ways in which society defeats that desire. In »Fassbinder«, ... Weiterlesen

James Curtis: James Whale

A New World of Gods and Monsters. USA 2003, 457 pp., brochure, € 24.59
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James Whale directed some of the most stylish movies of the 1930s, but he was most successful in a genre he virtually invented. Most famously in »Frankenstein«, Whale created a new type of horror film - sophisticated, tragic, and morbidly humorous. Whale made grim war dramas, light comedy, adventures, mysteries, and even a movie version of the musical »Show Boat«. ... Weiterlesen

Rob Epstein (R): The Celluloid Closet

USA 1995, engl.OF, dt.SF, dt.UT, 102 min., € 14.99
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Pro-fun
Was haben »Ben Hur« und »Laurel & Hardy« gemeinsam? Warum ist die Prügelei zwischen Montgomery Clift und John Wayne in »Red River« eine der erotischsten Szenen der Filmgeschichte? Die Antworten auf solche Fragen an die schwule Filmgeschichte gibt der Dokumentarfilm »The Celluloid Closet«. Die mehrfachen Oscar-Preisträger Epstein und Friedmann zeigen ihre Wahrnehmung von Lesben und Schwulen auf der Leinwand, durch ... Weiterlesen