Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies

Author/Contributor(s):	Horrigan, Patrick E
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Date:	06/20/2001
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 Horrigan's development from childhood to gay male adulthood through a series of visceral encounters with an unexpected handful of Hollywood movies from the 1960s and 1970s: Hello Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Poseidon Adventure, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Wiz.