Girl Reel
by Bonnie J. Morris
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What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common? All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a wasteland for women in general and lesbians in particular looking for strong images of themselves, Bonnie Morris gives readers a front row seat on a life growing up and coming out at the movies. Morris writes, This is a collection of movie show more stories-by which I mean recollections of events, images, turning points generated by specific moviegoing experiences, and specific movies and the book is built around the catalyst of going to a movie as a chunk of formative girl identity.Girl Reel is a raucous, rollicking, sometimes acerbic look at the powerful influence the entertainment industry has on our community, family, and social lives. A must-have for all film buffs,Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culture-how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and chronicling the move of lesbian and gay issues from the margins to the mainstream, Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers / viewers. Bonnie J. Morris is a professor of women's studies at George Washington University and Georgetown University. Born to Hollywood parents-her father was an extra inThe Day the Earth Stood Still; her mother was an assistant to the movie star Greer Garson- Morris is the author ofEden Built by Eves (Alyson 1999) and two books on Jewish women's history, and she is a contributor to more than fifty books and journals. show lessTags
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Bonnie J. Morris, author of 19 books and a member of the Authors Guild, has been teaching women's sports history since 1996, becoming Professor of the Year and emeritus professor at George Washington University, Vicennial Medalist at Georgetown, and a nominee for the Excellence in Teaching Prize at UC-Berkeley. She is a scholarly adviser to the show more National Museum of Women's History, a history consultant to Disney, and the archivist for Olivia Records, as well as three-time faculty for the global Semester at Sea program. Find her talks on C-SPAN and her writing at www.bonniejmorris.com. Morris is currently a lecturer in history at the University of California at Berkeley. show less
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- In Southern California it is known as The Industry. The movie studios will eat you alive - or make you rich; lie to you - or grant you the fame and celebrity you have sought all your days No one growing up in West L.A., bot m... (show all)y father and his sister, nor my mother, no myself, remained untouched by the lure and influence of Hollywood, which oozed gelatinously from the executive honeycombs of offices, studios, premiers, and deals. Yet all four of us, at different times, said NO to Hollywood, to being package as image for sale. -Introduction: When We Were Studio Brats
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 791.43653
- Canonical LCC
- PN1995.L48
Classifications
- Genres
- LGBTQ+, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43653 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Movies, TV, Video Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Special aspects of films; film adaptations, film genres {class specific films in 791.437} Films dealing with humanity Human characteristics and activities
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- PN1995 .L48 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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- Popularity
- 978,717
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
