L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic

L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)

A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's L.A. Plays Itself is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement.

Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Country USA
Brand Arsenal Pulp Press
Manufacturer Arsenal Pulp Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781551525624
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic (Queer Film Classics)