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

by Cindy Patton

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551525623
• ISBN13: 9781551525624
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 6.9"