Uninvited : classical Hollywood cinema and lesbian representability

✍ Scribed by Patricia White

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 296
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s together with all forms of "sex perversion." Through close readings of gothics, ghost films, and maternal melodramas addressed to female audiences, Uninvited argues that viewers are "invited" to make lesbian "inferences."

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