Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-524) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Corey K. Creekmuir and Alexander Doty -- Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Robin Wood -- Lesbians and film / Edith Becker [and others] -- The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / Chris Straayer -- The great escape / Al LaValley -- There's something queer here / Alexander Doty -- Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White -- The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub -- From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / B. Ruby Rich -- Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur. DOSSIER ON HITCHCOCK. Introduction / Alexander Doty -- Hitchcock's homophobia / John Hepworth -- The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / Robin Wood -- "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton -- "I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein -- The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp -- Flaming closets / Michael Moon -- Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Thomas Waugh -- Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Heather Findlay -- Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Nayland Blake -- Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover -- Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / Bruce La Bruce -- In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Essex Hemphill. DOSSIER ON POPULAR MUSIC. Introduction / Corey K. Creekmuir -- In defense of disco / Richard Dyer -- Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein -- Immaculate connection / Michael Musto -- The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas -- Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson -- The politics of drag / Jeffrey Hilbert -- Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / Marlon Riggs -- All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein -- Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark.
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