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Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face

English

By (author): Paul Morrison

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor and the gay male fetishization of those faces.
Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of to-be-looked-at-ness is countered by a hermeneutics of to-be-seen-through-ness. The latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a hermeneutics of gaze; the iconomic female faces of classical Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. Classical Holly Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face explores the tension between the two through detailed readings of Ninotchka, Sunset Boulevard, and Suddenly, Last Summer in the context of early and mid-century cinema and culture. It includes, for instance, an analysis of D. W. Griffith and blackface, the Stonewall riots and the coming-into-voice of the modern gay subject, several major films by Hitchcock, Citizen Kane, and the emergence of rival standards of beauty, both female and male, in figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, and James Dean.
This is an important study for students of queer theory, film theory and history, and gender and sexuality studies.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 660g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Dec 2020
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367482282

About Paul Morrison

Paul Morrison is Professor of English at Brandeis University and a member of the steering committee of the Program in Film Television and Interactive Media. He is the author of The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot Paul de Man (New York: Oxford University Press 1996) The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (New York: New York University Press 2002) and numerous articles on literature film and sexuality.

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