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PublisherArsenal Pulp Press

ISBN-101551525623

ISBN-139781551525624

eBay Product ID (ePID)201652264

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Book TitleL. A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand : a Queer Film Classic

Number of Pages136 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicPornography, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Film / History & Criticism

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, Social Science

AuthorCindy Patton

Book SeriesQueer Film Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.3 Oz

Item Length7 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2019-396462

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsCindy Patton tells the story of 1970s gay pornography on its own terms, arguing that the tendency to look back on these works as an archive of condomless sex is to miss what is most interesting about them. Patton frames Boys in the Sand and L.A. Plays Itself as both aesthetic experiments and as communiques about changing sexual mores. She urges contemporary readers not to look back on the pre-AIDS era as a time when "sex was not risky" but rather as "that actual time when gay men defined for themselves what risk is and how it should be addressed." A riveting account of gay sexual culture in the 70s from one of our foremost experts in the history of sexuality. —Heather Love, author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History

Dewey Decimal791.43/653808664

SynopsisThis title is the first to delve into the newly sexual liberal times of the early 1970s in post-Stonewall America. L.A. Plays Itself (Halstead) and Boys in the Sand (Poolemar) were both gay arthouse porn films that were released within months of each other at a theatre in New York in 1972. Cindy Patton discusses the historical context of these films and their legal and social ramifications, as well as other films that were produced during this crucial period in cinematic history., A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's "Boys in the Sand" is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's "L.A. Plays Itself" is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement. Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia., A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's L.A. Plays Itself is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement. Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.H55