Uninvited
Subtitle: classical Hollywood cinema and lesbian representability
By: Patricia White.
Series: Theories of representation and difference
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Description: 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."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index.