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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 82107 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English Series: Sony Pictures classicsPublisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2001Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0767849000
  • 9780767849005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/653 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.H55 C45 2001
NLM classification:
  • NF PN 1996 C455
Online resources:
Contents:
Gay images -- From the very beginning -- Enter the sissy -- Morocco -- Queen Christina -- Cold-hearted villains -- The Maltese falcon -- Rope -- Behind bars -- Young man with a horn -- Tea and sympathy -- Rebel without a cause -- Ben-Hur -- Blurring the lines -- Gentlemen prefer blondes -- Tony Curtis -- Victim -- The children's hour -- Advise & consent -- Unhappy gay people -- The boys in the band -- Cabaret -- Cruising -- Making love -- Sunday, bloody Sunday -- Women who love each other -- Philadelphia.
Special features: Commentary with filmmakers Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, producer Howard Rosenman, editor Arnold Glassman, author Vito Russo ; bonus trailers ; collection of outtakes ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes including letters from Gore Vidal and Charlton Heston ; scene selections.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Nancy Schreiber ; editors, Jeffrey Friedman, Arnold Glassman ; story, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Sharon Wood ; narration writer, Armistead Maupin ; music, Carter Burwell ; vocal performance, K.D. Lang ; co-producer, Michael Lumpkin ; producer/directors, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman.
Narrator, Lily Tomlin ; commentary, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Shirley MacLaine, Gore Vidal.Summary: Assembles footage from over 120 films showing the changing face of cinema homosexuality from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist cinema of the 1990s. Many actors, writers and commentators provide anecdotes regarding the history of the role of gay men and lesbians on the silver screen.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03360 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050308802

DVD release of film originally produced in 1995.

Based on the book by Vito Russo.

Notes on the documentary inserted in container.

Gay images -- From the very beginning -- Enter the sissy -- Morocco -- Queen Christina -- Cold-hearted villains -- The Maltese falcon -- Rope -- Behind bars -- Young man with a horn -- Tea and sympathy -- Rebel without a cause -- Ben-Hur -- Blurring the lines -- Gentlemen prefer blondes -- Tony Curtis -- Victim -- The children's hour -- Advise & consent -- Unhappy gay people -- The boys in the band -- Cabaret -- Cruising -- Making love -- Sunday, bloody Sunday -- Women who love each other -- Philadelphia.

Special features: Commentary with filmmakers Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, Lily Tomlin, producer Howard Rosenman, editor Arnold Glassman, author Vito Russo ; bonus trailers ; collection of outtakes ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes including letters from Gore Vidal and Charlton Heston ; scene selections.

Rated R.

DVD ; NTSC format, region 1 ; Dolby Digital.

Closed-captioned in English.

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