Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822349477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Corber’s historical perspective shows how female power was mapped on to filmic fears and fantasies.”—Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. Shedding new light on canonical films and iconic stars—All about Eve and Marnie, Bette Davis and Doris Day—Cold War Femme tracks how a shift in discourses of homosexuality from gender inversion to object choice gave a new frisson to Hollywood femininity. “The Alfred Kinsey of film studies, Robert J. Corber has followed up his authoritative work on Cold War representations of male homosexuality with a companion volume on constructions of lesbianism in films of the period
They could mingle “congenially in conventional society.” Some were popular sex symbols; some were married to unsuspecting husbands. Corber contends that The Grapevine exemplified a homophobic Cold War discourse that portrayed the femme as an invisible threat to the nation. He examines treatments of the femme in All About Eve, The Children’s Hour, and Marnie, and he explores the impact of Cold War homophobia on the careers of Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Doris Day.. In the early twentieth century, homophobic discourse had focused on gender identity: the lesbian was a masculine woma
Nope Written like a grad school thesis. It was an interesting idea, particularly about Doris Day, but boring to read through.