Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability

Informationen zum Autor Patricia White, Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, teaches film and cultural studies at Swarthmore College. Her work has appeared in Screen, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, and in numerous collections of feminist and lesbian/gay film studies. She is co-editor of a Wide Angle special issue devoted to the work of the feminist film distributor Women make Movies and a member of the editorial collective of Camera Obscura. Klappentext Looking at the lure of some of the great female stars and at the visual coding of supporting actresses, the book identifies lesbian spectatorial strategies. Zusammenfassung Examines "masked" lesbian representation in Hollywood cinema Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: Reading the Code(s) Chapter 2: Lesbian Cinephilia Chapter 3: Female Spectator, Lesbian Spectator Chapter 4: Films for Girls: Lesbian Sentiment and the Maternal Melodrama Chapter 5: Supporting "Character" Chapter 6: On Retrospectatorship Notes Works Cited Index

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Reading the Code(s)
Chapter 2: Lesbian Cinephilia
Chapter 3: Female Spectator, Lesbian Spectator
Chapter 4: Films for Girls: Lesbian Sentiment and the Maternal Melodrama
Chapter 5: Supporting "Character"
Chapter 6: On Retrospectatorship
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Product details

• Authors: Patricia White, White Patricia
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.1999
• EAN: 9780253213457
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21345-7
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Theories of Representation and; Theories of Representation and Difference; Theories of Representation and; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet