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Girl Reel : a Lesbian Remembers Growing Up at the Movies : Memoir by Morris, Bonnie J., 1961- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>What do Susan Sarandon, Barbara Hershey, Meryl Streep, Bette Midler, and Cher have in common?</p> <p>All have portrayed lesbian characters on the silver screen. Although cinema and television in the last three decades of the twentieth century have been a wasteland for women in general and lesbians in particular looking for strong images of themselves, Bonnie Morris gives readers a front row seat on a life growing up and coming out at the movies. Morris writes, This is a collection of movie stories-by which I mean recollections of events, images, turning points generated by specific moviegoing experiences, and specific movies and the book is built around the catalyst of going to a movie as a chunk of formative girl identity. <i>Girl Reel</i> is a raucous, rollicking, sometimes acerbic look at the powerful influence the entertainment industry has on our community, family, and social lives.</p> <p>A must-have for all film buffs, <i>Girl Reel</i> is a book about our relationship to popular culture-how media images both preview and rerun our own lives. By surveying images of women and lesbians in television and film over the seventies, eighties, and nineties, and chronicling the move

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Author

Morris, Bonnie J., 1961-

Publisher

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press ; St. Paul: Distributor, Consortium Book Sales

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781566890946

Category

history

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14