Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822349477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Corber has followed up his authoritative work on Cold War representations of male homosexuality with a companion volume on constructions of lesbianism in films of the period. Corber’s historical perspective shows how female power was mapped on to filmic fears and fantasies.”—Patricia White, author of Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability. “The Alfred Kinsey of film studies, Robert J. Shedding new light on canonical films and iconic stars—All about Eve and Marnie, Bette Davis and Doris Day—Cold War Femme tracks how a shift in discourses
Underlying this panic was the widespread fear that college-educated women would reject marriage and motherhood as aspirations, weakening the American family and compromising the nation’s ability to defeat totalitarianism. In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared indistinguishable from other women. Corber develops his argument by analyzing representations of lesbianism in Hollywood movies of the 1950s and 1960s, and in the careers of some of the era&r
"Nope" according to Kit van Cleave. Written like a grad school thesis. It was an interesting idea, particularly about Doris Day, but boring to read through.