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CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA, SEXUALITY, AND THE POLITICS OF T IBD

PAUL MORRISON
ROUTLEDGE
08 / 2022
9780367561796
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Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces ináthe golden age ofáHollywood - Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor - and the gay male fetishization of those faces.áááClassical Hollywood cinemaáis 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.'á The latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a hermeneutics of gaze, the iconomic female faces of classical Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. Classical Holly Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face explores the tension between the two through detailed readings of Ninotchka, Sunset Boulevard, and Suddenly, Last Summer in the context of early and mid-century cinema and culture.áIt includes, for instance,áanáanalysis of D. W. Griffith and blackface, the Stonewall riots and the coming-into-voice of the modern gay subject, several major films by Hitchcock, Citizen Kane, and the emergence of rival standards of beauty, both female and male, in figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. áá This is an important study for students of queer theory, film theory and history, and gender and sexuality studies.