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

by 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."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367482282
• ISBN13: 9780367482282
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"