{"product_id":"9781551525631","title":"L.A. Plays Itself\/Boys in the Sand: A Queer Film Classic","description":"A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's \u003ci\u003eBoys in the Sand\u003c\/i\u003e is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's \u003ci\u003eL.A. Plays Itself\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCindy Patton\u003c\/b\u003e is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179438653680,"sku":"9781551525631","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551525631_p0.jpg?v=1763757095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551525631","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}