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Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV
Boyd McDonald
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Description for Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV
Paperback. Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents. Num Pages: 304 pages, 110 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
A writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary (1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern Art are cropped, Reagan could pass for a butch lez from the Women's Army Corps who is about to put the old make on a fluff (Patricia Neal). -from Cruising the Movies Cruising the Movies was Boyd McDonald's sexual guide ... Read more
A writer casts an acerbic, queer eye on the greats and the not-so-greats of Hollywood's Golden Age. Ronnie Reagan's bizarre legs are sufficient reason to watch John Loves Mary (1949), a picture so ordinaire it needs this bizarre touch. When the faces in this historic still from the Museum of Modern Art are cropped, Reagan could pass for a butch lez from the Women's Army Corps who is about to put the old make on a fluff (Patricia Neal). -from Cruising the Movies Cruising the Movies was Boyd McDonald's sexual guide ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Autonomedia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
Condition
New
Weight
498g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781584351719
SKU
V9781584351719
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About Boyd McDonald
Boyd McDonald (1925-1993) was a writer for Time and IBM, a journalist, and founder and editor of Straight to Hell, a celebrated fanzine that bore a variety of subtitles, including The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts or The New York Review of Cocksucking. William E. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film history at ... Read more
Reviews for Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV
As my copious citations of McDonald prove, he honed a kind of cultural criticism-personal but outward-looking, raunchy yet brainy, funny and furious-rare in his era and barely in evidence today, when we are overrun with professional (and paraprofessional) opinionators whose writing rarely rises above plot synopses with some adjectives and adverbs thrown in. -Bookforum Cruising the Movies ... Read more