02375nam 2200493 450 991081642890332120190925085341.00-252-05130-0(CKB)4100000008700977(MiAaPQ)EBC5813344(StDuBDS)EDZ0002141987(EXLCZ)99410000000870097720191127e20202019 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierQueer timing the emergence of lesbian sexuality in early cinema /Susan Potter[electronic resource]Urbana :University of Illinois Press,2020.1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) illustrationsWomen and film history internationalIllinois scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2019.0-252-04246-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In 'Queer Timing', Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema.Women and film history international.Illinois scholarship online.Lesbianism in motion picturesLesbians in motion picturesMotion picturesHistory20th centuryLesbianism in motion pictures.Lesbians in motion pictures.Motion picturesHistory791.436526643Potter Susan(Film historian),1613774StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910816428903321Queer timing3943238UNINA