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Informationen zum Autor Robert J. Corber is Professor and Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Trinity College. He is the author of Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity and In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America, both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation. Zusammenfassung Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Reclaiming the "Lost Sex": The Lesbian in Cold War Culture 1 Part I. Screening the Femme 1. Representing the Femme: All about Eve 27 2. Lesbian Unitelligibility: The Children's Hour 48 3. Recuperating Femme Femininity: Marnie 72 Part II. Female Stardom and Cold War Culture 4. Joan Crawford's Padded Shoulders 97 5. Remaking Bette Davis 127 6. Doris Day's Queer Normativity 154 Conclusion. Killing Off the Femme: The Haunting 185 Notes 191 Bibliography 215 Index 223
