Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies
by Patrick E. Horrigan
University of Wisconsin Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-299-16160-6 | Paper: 978-0-299-16164-4 | eISBN: 978-0-299-16163-7 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification HQ75.8.H67A3 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.389664
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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