[3] Maniaci's cinematography credits include Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire Dolan (1998) The Tao of Steve (2000),[4] The Business of Strangers (2001),[5] Party Monster (2003),[6] Inside Deep Throat (2005),[7] and Outsourced (2006).
[10] Maniaci has also done cinematography for many TV series, including Brotherhood, Allegiance, The Breaks and The Bold Type, and for several music videos and short films.
They're all really different looking ... Claire Dolan, for instance, is an incredibly formal art film with very precise, almost geometric sort of chrome-and-glass photography.
The film focuses on one ex-ex-gay male couple, but also shows how through such techniques as the women wearing make-up and the men doing butch or macho mannerisms.
[14] Yahoo describes it as "A documentary about the contemporary struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights, focusing on the religious, right-wing proliferation of curative therapies for homosexuality.
[20] PlanetOut Inc. gave it four stars, and described as a "riveting documentary (that) offers the most dynamic historical overview of gays and lesbians in modern American society since Before Stonewall.
The producers can't bear to leave bad enough alone: suddenly you find yourself watching homosexuals being rounded up by German Nazis.
[25][26][27] In an article entitled Bullets, Ballots and Bibles: Documenting the History of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle in America, scholar Bruce R. Brasell states the film "explores the recycling by religious fundamentalists of discredited psychiatric treatments from the Sixties, reparative theory, to 'cure' homosexuals today.