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Looking for Vito
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 49, Number 1, Fall 2009
- pp. 41-64
- 10.1353/cj.0.0174
- Article
- Additional Information
What is the purpose of looking for Vito Russo in 2009? Though dead for nineteen years, and though almost universally dismissed in current queer film theory, Russo and his Celluloid Closet (1981; rev. 1987) remain indispensable to our reading of gender and sexuality on screen.