Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies

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.

Author: Patrick E. Horrigan
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 06/20/2001
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.88w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780299161644
ISBN10: 0299161641
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General

About the Author
Patrick E. Horrigan lives in New York where he is associate professor of English at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University. He is the author of a play, Messages for Gary, and lives in Manhattan.