Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability

by Patricia White

Book Overview

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." Looking at the lure of some of the great female star personae (in films such as Rebecca, Pinky, The Old Maid,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253336414
• ISBN13: 9780253336415
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"