Book Event: Michael Koresky

Michael Koresky—Senior Curator of Film at the Museum of the Moving Image & host of Queersighted—presents his blazingly original history!

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IN-STORE EVENT
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 PM
Michael Koresky presents Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

Michael Koresky—Senior Curator of Film at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image and host of the Criterion Channel series Queersighted—presents his blazingly original history Sick and Dirty at Greenlight! The book celebrates the persistence of queerness onscreen, behind the camera, and between the lines during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. Lifting up the underappreciated queer filmmakers, writers, and actors of the era, Koresky—a member of the National Society of Film Critics—finds artists who are long overdue for reevaluation. Through his brilliant analysis, Sick and Dirty reveals the "bad seeds" of queer cinema to be surprisingly, even gleefully subversive, reminding us, in an age of book bans and gag laws, that nothing makes queerness speak louder than its opponents' bids to silence it. Koresky reads from and discusses the book before an audience Q&A.

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