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A review by micahhortonhallett
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
5.0
This brilliant book needs to be updated now. It has a few flaws, but just a few, and for a book that purports to simply detail the history of homosexual representation in mainstream American movies from the silent era to 1986, Vitto Russo accomplishes so much more. The Celluloid Closet is a manifesto, a road map and a mid-eighties view from the trenches on the struggle for visibility, viability, representation and social and artistic expressions of gender, sexuality and difference that are STILL being fought across media Russo could not even imagine at the time of his writing.
Read this book.
Read it and weep. Read it and empathize. Read it and remember. Read it and get angry. Read it and get ready to take to the streets again. Read it and know that you aren't alone. Read it and hear the deafening silence of all who died feeling alone or monstrous or like the butt of a throwaway joke because of a conspiracy of lawmakers, religious dogmatics and the false mirror they held (and hold), up to the world.
Read this book.
Read it and weep. Read it and empathize. Read it and remember. Read it and get angry. Read it and get ready to take to the streets again. Read it and know that you aren't alone. Read it and hear the deafening silence of all who died feeling alone or monstrous or like the butt of a throwaway joke because of a conspiracy of lawmakers, religious dogmatics and the false mirror they held (and hold), up to the world.