Screening The Sexes

by Parker Tyler, Andrew Sarris (Foreword), Charles Boultenhouse (Afterword)

Parker Tyler (1904-1974) was a noted American film critic, and this text is regarded as his most significant work. Devoted to homosexuality in films, it aims to look beyond the obvious and to observe the psychology of sex roles, at the same time recognising film as the realm of contemporary mythology. Tyler was once described as one of the most consistently interesting and provocative writers on film that America has produced, "well-informed and free of cant".

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, Gay, LGBT, Queer

365 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[Jesse]

That grand, unwieldy masterpiece of film-criticism-as-camp. Both fun and bewildering, and often at the same time. Tyler is one of film criticism's pioneers and iconoclasts whose turn for rediscovery is long overdue.