Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood with Richard Barrios (5/30/2021)

For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/IDP5sq-Fa_I Richard Barrios received degrees in both music and film history and worked in both music and film before turning his attention to writing. His first book was the widely acclaimed A SONG IN THE DARK: THE BIRTH OF THE MUSICAL FILM, winner of the Theatre Library Association Prize and reissued in 2009 in an extensively revised second edition. Barrios’s second book, SCREENED OUT: PLAYING GAY IN HOLLYWOOD FROM EDISON TO STONEWALL, was the subject of a month-long film series on Turner Classic Movies programmed by Barrios, who also co-hosted the series with Robert Osborne. For his third book, Barrios returned to the musical genre with DANGEROUS RHYTHM: WHY MOVIE MUSICALS MATTER. This work led the Philadelphia Inquirer to comment that “Barrios knows this business inside and out, upside and down. He can turn a spiffy phrase…and even his footnotes are fun.” In 2017, he renewed his association with Turner Classic Movies for still another well-received book on musicals, the lavishly-produced MUST-SEE MUSICALS: 50 SHOW-STOPPING MOVIES WE CAN’T FORGET.  Mining studio records, scripts, drafts (including cut scenes), censor notes, reviews, and recollections of viewers, Barrios paints our fullest picture yet of how gays and lesbians were portrayed by the dream factory, warning that we shouldn't congratulate ourselves quite so much on the progress movies have made since Stonewall.   Order HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Screened-Out-Playing-Hollywood-Stonewall/dp/041592328X