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L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic

L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic

Paperback

Series: Queer Film Classics

Film StudiesGeneral SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

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ISBN10: 1551525623
ISBN13: 9781551525624
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: Dec 23 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

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.

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