Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face
examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden
age of Hollywood - Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor -
and the gay male fetishization of those faces. Classical Hollywood
cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between
rival scopic economies: an erotics of "to-be-looked-at-ness" is
countered by a hermeneutics of "to-be-seen-through-ness." The
latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of
Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and
normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male
investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a
hermeneutics of gaze; the iconomic female faces of classical
Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. Classical Holly Cinema,
Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face explores the tension
between the two through detailed readings of Ninotchka, Sunset
Boulevard, and Suddenly, Last Summer in the context of early and
mid-century cinema and culture. It includes, for instance, an
analysis of D. W. Griffith and blackface, the Stonewall riots and
the coming-into-voice of the modern gay subject, several major
films by Hitchcock, Citizen Kane, and the emergence of rival
standards of beauty, both female and male, in figures such as
Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson,
and James Dean. This is an important study for students of queer
theory, film theory and history, and gender and sexuality studies.
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