A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood

Description

Product ID:	9780520299658
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Feminist Media Histories
Title:	A Queer Way of Feeling
Subtitle:	Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood
Authors:	Author: Diana W. Anselmo
Page Count:	280
Subjects:	Films, cinema, Films, cinema, History of the Americas, History, Media studies, Gender studies: women and girls, History of the Americas, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Media studies, Gender studies: women, USA, 20th century
Description:	A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed photos into personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, girl fans from all walks of life stitched together established homoerotic conventions with an emergent syntax of film stardom to make sense of feeling "queer" or "different from the norm." These material testimonies show how a forgotten audience engendered terminologies, communities, and creative practices that became cornerstones of media fan reception and queer belonging.
Imprint Name:	University of California Press
Publisher Name:	University of California Press
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2023-02-07

Weight	394 g
Dimensions	228 × 153 × 17 mm