A Queer Way of Feeling

Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-29965-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Feminist Media Histories

A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed photos into personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, girl fans from all walks of life stitched together established homoerotic conventions with an emergent syntax of film stardom to make sense of feeling "queer" or "different from the norm." These material testimonies show how a forgotten audience engendered terminologies, communities, and creative practices that became cornerstones of media fan reception and queer belonging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anselmo, Diana W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Girl, Fan, Queer: Female Film Reception in the 1910s

1. It Disquiets, It Delights: Same-Sex Attachments and Early Female Moviegoing

2. “Dear Flo”: Homoerotic Desire and Queer Identification in Private Fan Mail
3. “If I Were a Man”: Gender-Bending in Girls’ Published Fan Poems

4. Girls, Pick Up Your Scissors: The Queer Makings of the “Movie Scrap Book” Fad

5. Different from Others: Movie-Illustrated Diaries, Cross-Dressing, and Circulated

Discourses on Female Deviance
6. A Coding of Queer Delights: Gender Nonconformity in Girls’ Movie Scrapbooks

Epilogue: One of Us: The Corporatization of Female Fan Love and Labor

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Diana W. Anselmo is a feminist film historian and a queer immigrant. Her work has been featured in a number of journals, including Screen, Camera Obscura, Film History, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Journal of Women's History. Her research has received support from the Fulbright/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, and the International Association for Media and History, among others.