''Screened Out: Gay Images in Film'' was a June 2007
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
broadcast on
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcas ...
. The festival, based on the book ''Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood'' by
Richard Barrios, examined the history of homosexual images in American cinema. ''Screened Outs June schedule coincided with
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
The series focused not just on films in which homosexual themes or characters were obvious but on those which, because of the
Motion Picture Production Code
The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the Cinema of the United States, United States from 1934 to 1968. It ...
, were concealed or "coded". ''Screened Out'' sought out films that were rarely seen and not necessarily included in TCM's film library. The
Library of Congress
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served as the source for one film, 1912's ''
Algie the Miner''.
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Films
Each night of the festival spotlighted a different Hollywood era or theme.
The early years
* '' Algie the Miner''
* '' The Monster''
* '' Exit Smiling''
* '' The Broadway Melody''
* '' Way Out West''
* '' The Office Wife''
* '' Stage Mother''
Gays Before the Code
* '' The Sign of the Cross''
* '' Our Betters''
* '' Double Harness''
* '' Queen Christina''
* '' Wonder Bar''
* '' The Sport Parade''
Men and Women Behind Bars
* '' Hell's Highway (1932)''
* ''Ladies They Talk About
''Ladies They Talk About'' is a 1933 pre-Code American crime drama directed by Howard Bretherton and William Keighley, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, and Lyle Talbot. The film is about an attractive woman who is a member of a ...
''
* '' Caged''
* '' So Young, So Bad''
* '' The Strange One''
* '' Women's Prison''
The Dark Side: Film Noir & Crime
* ''The Big Combo
''The Big Combo'' is a 1955 American crime film, crime film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis, written by Philip Yordan and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Bria ...
''
* ''Suddenly, Last Summer
''Suddenly Last Summer'' is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, '' Something Unspoken'' (written in London in ...
''
* '' Reflections in a Golden Eye''
* '' Gilda''
* '' The Maltese Falcon''
Horror Films
* '' The Uninvited''
* ''The Picture of Dorian Gray
''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is an 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American period ...
''
* '' Voodoo Island''
* '' The Haunting''
* '' The Seventh Victim''
Comedies
* ''Manhattan Parade
''Manhattan Parade '' is a 1931 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, early in 1931, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. ...
''
* '' Sylvia Scarlett''
* '' Turnabout''
* '' That Touch of Mink''
* '' The Producers''
* '' Designing Woman''
Code Busters
* '' Tea and Sympathy''
* ''Advise and Consent
''Advise and Consent'' is a 1959 political fiction novel by Allen Drury that explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell, whose promotion is endangered due to growing evidence ...
''
* '' The Children's Hour''
* '' Walk on the Wild Side''
* '' Victim''
Out and Open
* ''Staircase
A stairwell or stair room is a room in a building where a stair is located, and is used to connect walkways between floors so that one can move in height. Collectively, a set of stairs and a stairwell is referred to as a staircase or stairway ...
''
* '' The Fox''
* '' The Boys in the Band''
* '' The Killing of Sister George''
References
External links
''Screened Out'' official site
LGBTQ film festivals in the United States
Turner Classic Movies original programming
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