In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that
reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and
spectatorship in early cinema. Potter sees the emergence of lesbian
figures as only the most visible but belated outcome of multiple
sexuality effects. Early cinema reconfigured older erotic
modalities, articulated new--though incoherent--sexual categories,
and generated novel forms of queer feeling and affiliation. Potter
draws on queer theory, silent film historiography, feminist film
analysis, and archival research to provide an original and
innovative analysis. Taking a conceptually oriented approach, she
articulates the processes of filmic representation and
spectatorship that reshaped, marginalized, or suppressed women's
same-sex desires and identities. As she pursues a sense of
"timing," Potter stages scenes of the erotic and intellectual
encounters shared by historical spectators, on-screen figures, and
present-day scholars. The result is a daring revision of feminist
and queer perspectives that foregrounds the centrality of women's
same-sex desire to cinematic discourses of both homo- and
heterosexuality.
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