classical Hollywood cinema and lesbian representability
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- White, Patricia
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 1999 - B
- Thesaurus
- films, lesbianisme, vrouwbeelden, actrices, lesbische vrouwen, kijkgedrag, theorieën
- Description
- Study of the figure of the lesbian in film, in theory, and in spectatorship from the 1930s to the 1960s. During these years lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films together with all forms of 'sex perversion'. Through readings of gothics, ghost films, and maternal melodramas addressed to female audiences, this book argues that viewers are ínvited' to make lesbian ínferences'. Looking at the lure of some of the great female star personae (in films such as Rebecca, Pinky, The Old Maid, Queen Christina, and The Haunting) and at the visual coding of supporting actresses, it identifies lesbian spectatorial strategies.