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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Horak, Laura (1981-....)
Titre(s) : Girls will be boys [Texte imprimé] : cross-dressed women, lesbians, and American cinema, 1908-1934 / Laura Horak
Publication : New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers university press, 2016
Description matérielle : xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; Part 1. Cross-dressed women as American ideals (1908-1921) : Moving
picture uplift and the female boy ; Cowboy girls, girl spies, and the homoerotic
frontier ; Intermezzo codes of deviance (1892-1914) : Cultural hierarchy and the
detection of sexual deviance in A Florida enchantment ; Part 2. The emergence of
lesbian legibility (1921-1934) : Enter the lesbian: cosmopolitanism, trousers, and
lesbians in the 1920s ; The lesbian vogue and backlash against cross-dressed women
in the 1930s ; Conclusion ; Appendix: U.S. films featuring cross-dressed women,
1904-1934.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index
"Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions
with the cinematic cross-dressing they performed onscreen. What few modern viewers
realize, however, is that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually
came at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bending films that included more than
400 movies featuring women dressed as men. Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film
archives worldwide, looking at American films made between 1908 and 1934, and what
she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early
twentieth century. Questioning the assumption that cross-dressing women were automatically
viewed as transgressive, she finds that these figures were popularly regarded as wholesome
and regularly appeared onscreen in the 1910s, thus lending greater respectability
to the fledgling film industry. Horak also explores how and why this perception of
cross-dressed women began to change in the 1920s and early 1930s, examining how cinema
played a pivotal part in the representation of lesbian identity. Girls Will Be Boys
excavates a rich history of gender-bending film roles, enabling readers to appreciate
the wide array of masculinities that these actresses performed--from sentimental boyhood
to rugged virility to gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a
treasure-trove of vintage images, Girls Will Be Boys helps us view the histories of
gender, sexuality, and film through fresh eyes."--Publisher information
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- États-Unis
Travestis -- Au cinéma
Lesbianisme -- Au cinéma
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 550973 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes sociaux - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813574837. - ISBN 0813574838. - ISBN 9780813574820. - ISBN 081357482X. -
ISBN 9780813574844 (erroné). - ISBN 9780813574851 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45278624j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45278624
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