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MIDNIGHT COWBOY: A Radical Representation of Internalised Homophobia and Ableism

Posted On June 8, 2018

Emmanuel Omodeinde 0

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Released in 1969 Midnight Cowboy was the first gay-related Best Picture winner and the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. It was based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy and was written by Waldo Salt and directed by John Schlesinger. It has become one of the archetypal New Hollywood films, bucking the hyper-masculinity of contemporary Westerns such as The Wild Bunch (1969)...

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