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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816428903321

Autore

Potter Susan (Film historian)

Titolo

Queer timing : the emergence of lesbian sexuality in early cinema / / Susan Potter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-252-05130-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and film history international

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

791.436526643

Soggetti

Lesbianism in motion pictures

Lesbians in motion pictures

Motion pictures - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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