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Author Horrigan, Patrick E., author

Title Widescreen dreams : growing up gay at the movies / Patrick E. Horrigan
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 227 pages) : illustrations
Series Living out
Living out
Contents The Happiest Family in All the World! -- Outtakes I -- Love Barbra -- Outtakes II -- The Wreck of the Family -- Outtakes III -- Like Home -- Outtakes IV -- Coming Out, with Al Pacino -- Outtakes V
Summary "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 Patrick's development from childhood to gay male adulthood as a series of encounters, sometimes mournful, sometimes hysterically funny, with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s."
"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, unembarrassed detail his turbulent relationship with his mother, the first and most important in a series of strong women, both real and cinematic, who goaded him toward self-awareness; and he dramatizes his adolescent escape, both in fact and in celluloid fantasy, to the greatest, gayest city on earth, the Emerald City of daydreams, New York"--Publisher's description
Notes Based on the author's thesis (Columbia University)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227)
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Horrigan, Patrick E.
SUBJECT Horrigan, Patrick E. fast
Subject Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Gay men -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies
Motion pictures and gay men -- United States -- Case studies
Gay youth -- Family relationships -- United States -- Case studies
Motion pictures -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Gay men
Gay men -- Psychology
Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects
Homosexualität
Film
Mann
LGBTQ+ people.
Men.
Sexual minorities.
Gay studies.
Lesbian studies.
Gender studies.
Gay Roman Catholics.
LGBTQ+ Roman Catholics.
United States
USA
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Case studies
Gay autobiographies.
LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Case studies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Études de cas.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98048292
ISBN 9780299161637
0299161633
1280678119
9781280678110
9786613655042
661365504X
9780299161699
0299161692