A Queer Way of Feeling : Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anselmo, Diana W.

Series:

Feminist Media Histories

Feminist Media Histories ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fans (Persons)--United States--20th century.

Fans (Persons).

Homosexuality and motion pictures.

Lesbianism--United States--20th century.

Lesbianism.

Motion pictures and women.

Young women--United States--20th century.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Queer Way of Feeling

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Girl, Fan, Queer

1. It Disquiets, It Delights

2. “Dear Flo”

3. “If I Were a Man”

4. Girls, Pick Up Your Scissors

5. Different from Others

6. A Coding of Queer Delights

Epilogue: One of Us

Notes

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520971295

0520971299

OCLC:

1355217686