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Girls Will Be Boys - Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Hardcover)
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Girls Will Be Boys - Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Hardcover)
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Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made
lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing they
performed onscreen. What few modern viewers realize, however, is
that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually came
at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bending films that
included more than 400 movies featuring women dressed as men. Laura
Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, looking at
American films made between 1908 and 1934, and what she discovered
could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early
twentieth century. Questioning the assumption that cross-dressing
women were automatically viewed as transgressive, she finds that
these figures were popularly regarded as wholesome and regularly
appeared onscreen in the 1910s, thus lending greater respectability
to the fledgling film industry. Horak also explores how and why
this perception of cross-dressed women began to change in the 1920s
and early 1930s, examining how cinema played a pivotal part in the
representation of lesbian identity. Girls Will Be Boys excavates a
rich history of gender-bending film roles, enabling readers to
appreciate the wide array of masculinities that these actresses
performed-from sentimental boyhood to rugged virility to
gentlemanly refinement. Taking us on a guided tour through a
treasure-trove of vintage images, Girls Will Be Boys helps us view
the histories of gender, sexuality, and film through fresh eyes.
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Imprint: |
Rutgers University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2016 |
Authors: |
Laura Horak
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Dimensions: |
236 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
311 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8135-7483-7 |
Categories: |
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Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
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LSN: |
0-8135-7483-8 |
Barcode: |
9780813574837 |
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