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A Queer Way of Feeling
Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood
- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Subvention
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Girl, Fan, Queer: Female Film Reception in the 1910s
- 1.Ā Ā It Disquiets, It Delights: Same-Sex Attachments and Early Female Moviegoing
- 2.Ā Ā āDear Floā: Homoerotic Desire and Queer Identification in Private Fan Mail
- 3.Ā Ā āIf I Were a Manā: Gender-Bending in Girlsā Published Fan Poems
- 4.Ā Ā Girls, Pick Up Your Scissors: The Queer Makings of the āMovie Scrap Bookā Fad
- 5.Ā Ā Different from Others: Movie-Illustrated Diaries, Cross-Dressing, and Circulated Discourses on Female Deviance
- 6.Ā Ā A Coding of Queer Delights: Gender Nonconformity in Girlsā Movie Scrapbooks
- Epilogue: One of Us: The Corporatization of Female Fan Love and Labor
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- Index