Impossible bodies
Subtitle: femininity and masculinity at the movies
By: Chris Holmlund.
Series: Comedia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Body, Human, in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures; Minorities in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Impossible bodies, compromised positions 1; title: PART I; title: Gesturing toward genres 13; title: 1 Visible difference and flex appeal: The body, sex, sexuality and race in the Pumping Iron films 15; title: 2 When is a lesbian not a lesbian? The lesbian continuum and the mainstream femme film 31; title: 3 Nouveaux westerns for the 1990s: Genre offshoots, audience reroutes 51; title: PART II; title: Siding with sidekicks 69; title: 4 Cruisin' for a bruisin': Hollywood's deadly (lesbian) dolls 71; title: 5 Swede as "Other" 91; title: 6 Latinas in La-La Land: From bit part to starlet in "indie" and mainstream films 109; title: PART III; title: Staring at stars 123; title: 7 Channeling desire, making Whoopi 125; title: 8 The aging Clint 141; title: 9 Marketing Dolly dialectics: "The Sky is Green, the Grass is Blue" 157.