American Queer Cinema in the '50s and '60s
In this video, I take a look at some iconic gay and lesbian characters in midcentury Hollywood films (Young Man With a Horn, Tea and Sympathy, and The Children's Hour) and explain how their stories reflected the ways society dealt with queer people during the time of their release. This was my final project for my US 1950s & 1960s History class (HI 338)! 0:00 Intro: All About Eve 2:09 Queer cinema until 1950 4:13 The Fifties 6:04 Intellectual Gays: Young Man With a Horn 12:20 Cured Gays: Tea and Sympathy 18:47 The Sixties 20:30 Tragic Gays: The Children's Hour 27:10 Conclusion: Be Kind ----------------------------- website: https://www.linabarclay.com/ letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/linaoutofspace/ twitter: @catherinelise ------------------------------ clips from: All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey Calamity Jane (1953) dir. David Butler Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray Morocco (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg Night of the Iguana (1964) dir. John Huston Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke Queen Christina (1933) dir. Rouben Mamoulian Strangers on a Train (1951) dir. Alfred Hitchcock Suddenly, Last Summer (1949) dir. Joseph L Mankiewicz Tea and Sympathy (1956) dir. Vincente Minnelli The Celluloid Closet (1996) dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler Walk on the Wild Side (1962) dir. Edward Dmytryk Young Man with a Horn (1950) dir. Michael Curtiz - sources: • “A Code to Govern the Making of Motion and Talking Pictures.” Motion Picture Association of America. 1948. https://digitalcollections.oscars.org.... • “PERVERTS CALLED GOVERNMENT PERIL.” The New York Times (New York, NY), April 19, 1950. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time.... • Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. New York: Harper & Row, 1995. - music: • Backed Vibes Clean by Kevin MacLeod (Free Music Archive, CC BY) • The Urban Gentry by Beat Mekanik (Free Music Archive, CC BY) • Americana by Mr Smith (Free Music Archive, CC BY) • Ahmad by William Ross Chernoff's Nomads (Free Music Archive, CC BY) -
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