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The article focuses on the book The Queer Movie Poster and Homo Promo, a digital video disc (DVD) compilation of trailers of yore dealing with the love that dared not speak its name while also longing for its close-up, from film scholar Jenni Olson. She remarked that both the book and the DVD are each a wonderful introduction to the world of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender cinema. And indeed they do. In leafing through the book, one will find beautiful reproductions of post art for such rarities as Madchen in Uniform, The Gay Deceivers and Glen or Glenda? right alongside classics like Beautiful Thing and High Art. Homo Promo offers an impromptu crash course on the years before the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s changed everything. Trailers for such films as Tea and Sympathy, The Children's Hour, The Killing of Sister George, Midnight Cowboy and Death in Venice are shown without commentary.

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p51-51 2/3p; 1c