Corber Cold War Femme

Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9378-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corber, Robert J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.