American Queer Cinema in the '50s and '60s

In this video, I take a look at some iconic gay and lesbian characters in midcentury Hollywood films (Young Man With a Horn, Tea and Sympathy, and The Children's Hour) and explain how their stories reflected the ways society dealt with queer people during the time of their release.

This was my final project for my US 1950s & 1960s History class (HI 338)!

0:00 Intro: All About Eve
2:09 Queer cinema until 1950
4:13 The Fifties
6:04 Intellectual Gays: Young Man With a Horn
12:20 Cured Gays: Tea and Sympathy
18:47 The Sixties
20:30 Tragic Gays: The Children's Hour
27:10 Conclusion: Be Kind
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clips from:
All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey
Calamity Jane (1953) dir. David Butler
Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray
Morocco (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg
Night of the Iguana (1964) dir. John Huston
Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke
Queen Christina (1933) dir. Rouben Mamoulian
Strangers on a Train (1951) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Suddenly, Last Summer (1949) dir. Joseph L Mankiewicz
Tea and Sympathy (1956) dir. Vincente Minnelli
The Celluloid Closet (1996) dir. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
The Children's Hour (1961) dir. William Wyler
Walk on the Wild Side (1962) dir. Edward Dmytryk
Young Man with a Horn (1950) dir. Michael Curtiz
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sources:
• “A Code to Govern the Making of Motion and Talking Pictures.” Motion Picture Association of America. 1948. https://digitalcollections.oscars.org....
• “PERVERTS CALLED GOVERNMENT PERIL.” The New York Times (New York, NY), April 19, 1950. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/time....
• Russo, Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. New York: Harper & Row, 1995.
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music:
• Backed Vibes Clean by Kevin MacLeod (Free Music Archive, CC BY)
• The Urban Gentry by Beat Mekanik (Free Music Archive, CC BY)
• Americana by Mr Smith (Free Music Archive, CC BY)
• Ahmad by William Ross Chernoff's Nomads (Free Music Archive, CC BY)
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