| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 227 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Living out
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Living out.
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| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (Columbia University). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-227). |
| Contents |
Happiest Family in All the World! -- Outtakes I -- Love Barbra -- Outtakes II -- Wreck of the Family -- Outtakes III -- Like Home -- Outtakes IV -- Coming Out, with Al Pacino -- Outtakes V. |
| Summary |
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 Patrick's development from childhood to gay male adulthood as a series of encounters, sometimes mournful, sometimes hysterically funny, with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Describing his favorite movies as if they told the story of his own life, Patrick Horrigan turns popular culture upside down and inside out. He tunnels back into the long, lazy afternoons of his conservative Catholic upbringing in suburban Pennsylvania where the movies offered salvation from boredom and self-loathing; he re-creates in loving, unembarrassed detail his turbulent relationship with his mother, the first and most important in a series of strong women, both real and cinematic, who goaded him toward self-awareness; and he dramatizes his adolescent escape, both in fact and in celluloid fantasy, to the greatest, gayest city on earth, the Emerald City of daydreams, New York. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Horrigan, Patrick E.
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Horrigan, Patrick E. |
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Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay men. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Gay men -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies.
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Psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Motion pictures -- United States -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
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Motion pictures. |
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Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gay men. |
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Horrigan, Patrick E. Widescreen dreams. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1999 0299161609 (DLC) 98048292 (OCoLC)40269220 |
| ISBN |
9780299161637 (electronic book) |
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0299161633 (electronic book) |
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0299161609 |
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9780299161606 |
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0299161641 |
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9780299161644 |
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