Cold War Femme - Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema

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 Contents; Acknowledgments Introduction. Reclaiming the "Lost Sex": The Lesbian in Cold War Culture Part I. Screening the Femme 1. Representing the Femme: All about Eve; 2. Lesbian Unintelligibility: The Children's Hour; 3. Recuperating Femme Femininity: Marnie Part II. Female Stardom and Cold War Culture 4. Joan Crawford's Padded Shoulders; 5. Remaking Bette Davis; 6. Doris Day's Queer Normativity Conclusion. Killing Off the Femme: The Haunting Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Corber, Robert J Corber, Robert J. Corber
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9780822349471
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4947-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet