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Juridisk navn: Russo, Vito Anthony
Fødselsdato: 1946-07-11
Dødsdag: 1990-11-07
Begravelsessted: Cremated, ashes scattered on Fire Island and San Francisco's Castro District
Køn: male
Nationalitet: USA
Fødested: Manhattan, New York, USA
Dødssted: Manhattan, New York, USA
Bopæl: New York, New York, USA
Uddannelse: New York University
Erhverv: author
gay activist
Organisationer: Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
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The celluloid closet homosexuality in the movies af Vitto Russo

A rather dated review on LGBTQI in the cinema but Russo's critique of how the film business had, at the time of publication, not portrayed a non-cis person favourably. The situation has changed somewhat in the decades hence but no doubt there remains room for improvement.

Sadly, Mr Russo's death means the update won't be by him.

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MiaCulpa | 4 andre anmeldelser | Apr 28, 2020 |

Celluloid Closet Homosexuality in the Movies Revised…

A groundbreaking revelation when it came out almost 30 years ago, this book, as revised by its author in 1987, is very dated; and it's never been my idea of a prose paradigm.

I admit I was going down the primrose path of nostalgia when I decided to read this revised edition. I'd read the first edition as an eager young slut-about-town, yearning to impress the Older Men (25! 30! Oh, those old roues!) I was seducing in job lots with my encyclopedic knowledge of their old-fashioned world.

*snort*

But I did learn a lot, and it's always useful to do so. I wasn't aware that queer subtexts in Hollywood movies were the prime motivating factor for the introduction of the Production Code. I wasn't aware that the hoi polloi didn't know some of its major heartthrobs only throbbed for their own kind (Rock, of course, but Farley Granger, Randolph Scott, Burt Lancaster, ye gods what fun it would have been to be there then!!)...but I've known all that for a long time now, and I found it dreary to go back and read the uninspired prose of the late Mr. Russo without the sense of discovery and amazement I brought to it the first time.

You can't go home again. I suppose one shouldn't want to, either, but the urge hits once in a way, less and less often as the years pile up. I expect I'll stub my toe on this rock again. I'd say, if you're an average straight person, this book could be informative and possibly even interesting if you like the movies a lot. But it sure won't be entertaining.… (mere)

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richardderus | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jun 23, 2010 |

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies af Vito Russo

A comprehensive and thoroughly absorbing history of (primarily American) queer folks on film. The feature-length documentary of the same name was quite faithful to Vito Russo's work, but returning to the source is worthwhile for film history buffs of all persuasions. As a woman, I also appreciated that lesbians on film were well integrated into Russo's narrative, and that he included quite a bit of valid analysis about the connection between homophobia and misogyny on screen. A master work.

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whirled | 4 andre anmeldelser | May 20, 2009 |

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies af Vito Russo

Excellent book about the depiction of GLBT characters in movies from the silents to around the '80s. The book and the film complement each other well, the book with a little more depth and the film with a little more breadth.

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thedefinitefraggle | 4 andre anmeldelser | Dec 28, 2008 |

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