Laura Horak

Girls Will Be Boys

Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

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Produktbeschreibung

Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, and what she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early twentieth century. Girls Will Be Boys examines over 400 examples of women dressed as men in American films made between 1908 and 1934, revealing that Cross-Dressed women were once viewed as wholesome and used to lend respectability to the fledgling film industry. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780813574820
• ISBN-10: 081357482X
• Artikelnr.: 42741274

Autorenporträt

LAURA HORAK is an assistant professor of film studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the coeditor of an award-winning book, Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Cross-Dressed Women as American Ideals (1908–1921)
1          Moving Picture Uplift and the Female Boy
2          Cowboy Girls, Girl Spies, and the Homoerotic Frontier
Intermezzo  Codes of Deviance (1892–1914)
3          Cultural Hierarchy and the Detection of Sexual Deviance in A
Florida Enchantment (1894 and 1914)
Part II The Emergence of Lesbian Legibility (1921–1934)
4          Enter the Lesbian: Cosmopolitanism, Trousers, and Lesbians in
the 1920s
5          The Lesbian Vogue and Backlash against Cross-Dressed Women in
the 1930s
Conclusion
Appendix: U.S. Films Featuring Cross-Dressed Women, 1895–1934
Notes
Bibliography
Index