Queer timing : the emergence of lesbian sexuality in early cinema / Susan Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Susan (Film historian), author.

Series:

Women and film history international.

Illinois scholarship online.

Women and film history international

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbianism in motion pictures.

Lesbians in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Summary:

In 'Queer Timing', Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema.

Contents:

Part I. Queer historiography: suspending sexual knowledges

Troubling sexual history: the anachronistic lesbian of Pandora's Box

Traces, specks, and glimmers: regulating same-sex attractions

Part II. Bodies: style, genre, and sexual legibility

Queer character: a Florida Enchantment's ambivalent sexual motivations

Mobilizing genre: The Wild Party's sexual kinesthetics

Part III. Bonds: spectatorship and queer subjectivities

Looking backward: Loïe Fuller and the virtual erotics of spectatorship

Valentino's lesbianism: stardom, spectatorship, and queer recognition

Coda: out of time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 3, 2019).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9780252051302

0252051300