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Description:That book brilliantly read the "codes" of gayness that creators in the repressive time of Hollywood's censorious golden age slipped into mainstream films. William Mann takes Vito's work several steps further by tracking down and telling the stories of t In Vito Russo published a pioneering analysis of homosexuality in the movies, The Celluloid Closet later made into a documentary which is a different animal and no substitute for the book, which I read and reviewed with a rave here in William Mann takes Vito's work several steps further by tracking down and telling the stories of the gay and lesbian men and women who worked within that system--from the biggest stars, producers, directors and writers to the "little people" behind the scenes who decorated the sets and designed the costumes--showing how their own lives and attitudes informed their creative work and what audiences saw on the screen. Even though it is not as scintillatingly written as Vito's classic, Mann's meticulously researched book is every bit as important and significant; a much-needed and enormously enlightening history of a subculture that shaped the iconic images seen by millions, while doing its best to survive both in a Hollywood and in a general social order hostile to the desires and identities of its individuals.

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