03593cam a2200589 4500 2798981545 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781639732555 1639732551 B0DVLRK9KM Amazon 6e425c4a-dfe9-4853-94f4-90d673adf105 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11599925 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Koresky, Michael. Sick and Dirty [Libby eBook] : Hollywood's Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Films of Endearment. thought provoking. history buffs. Film Studies. book banning. informative. insightful. Nonfiction. filmmakers. thoughtful. Censorship. book bans. powerful. Lesbian. Movies. theory. moving. lgbtq+. LGBTQ. queer. ‌lgbt. LGBT. Gay. HTML:Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nonfiction AN ALLSTORA'S QUEER HISTORY 101 BOOK CLUB PICK "An absorbing landmark of film criticism." —The Chicago Tribune, "The 10 Best Books of the Year" A blazingly original history celebrating the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included "any inference" of the lives of homosexuals. In a landmark 1981 book, gay activist Vito Russo famously condemned Hollywood's censorship regime, lambasting many midcentury films as the bigoted products of a "celluloid closet." But there is more to these movies than meets the eye. In this insightful, wildly entertaining book, cinema historian Michael Koresky finds new meaning in "problematic" classics of the Code era like Hitchcock's Rope, Minnelli's Tea and Sympathy, and-bookending the period and anchoring Koresky's narrative-William Wyler's two adaptations of The Children's Hour, Lillian Hellman's provocative hit play about a pair of schoolteachers accused of lesbianism. Lifting up the underappreciated queer filmmakers, writers, and actors of the era, Koresky finds artists who are long overdue for reevaluation. Through his brilliant inquiry, Sick and Dirty reveals the "bad seeds" of queer cinema to be surprisingly, even gleefully subversive, reminding us, in an age of book bans and gag laws, that nothing makes queerness speak louder than its opponents' bids to silence it. LGBTQIA+ (Nonfiction.) Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-25 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e425c4a-dfe9-4853-94f4-90d673adf105&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6e425c4a-dfe9-4853-94f4-90d673adf105&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)