Girl Reel Book

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 lived growing up and coming out at the movies. Morris writes, This is a collection of movie storiesby 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. is a raucous, rollicking, sometimes acerbic look at the powerful influence the entertainment industry has on our community, families, and social lives. A must-have for all film buffs, Girl Reel is a book about our relationship to popular culturehow 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 of lesbian and gay issues from the margins to the mainstream, Morris offers her own images of strong women, for a new generation of readers / viewers. You have to know who we are by now, us queer girls. We grew up in front of you, our lives a private girl reel. Some of us spent that girl reel at the movies.Read More