Overview

"Gathering an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs, A Queer Way of Feeling explores how, in the 1910s, girls coming of age in the United States used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross-dressed photos on personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, adolescent girls from all walks of life stitched together established homoerotic conventions with an emergent syntax of film stardom to make sense of mental states, actions, and proclivities self-described as ""queer"" or ""different from the norm."" Material testimonies of a forgotten audience, these autobiographical artifacts show how early movie-loving girls engendered terminologies, communities, and creative practices that would become cornerstones of media fan reception and queer belonging.    "

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Author:   Diana W. Anselmo
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520299658

ISBN 10:   0520299655
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   07 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Girl, Fan, Queer: Female Film Reception in the 1910s 1. It Disquiets, It Delights: Same-Sex Attachments and Early Female Moviegoing  2. “Dear Flo”: Homoerotic Desire and Queer Identification in Private Fan Mail 3. “If I Were a Man”: Gender-Bending in Girls’ Published Fan Poems  4. Girls, Pick Up Your Scissors: The Queer Makings of the “Movie Scrap Book” Fad  5. Different from Others: Movie-Illustrated Diaries, Cross-Dressing, and Circulated  Discourses on Female Deviance 6. A Coding of Queer Delights: Gender Nonconformity in Girls’ Movie Scrapbooks  Epilogue: One of Us: The Corporatization of Female Fan Love and Labor Notes  Illustration Credits  Index

Reviews

"""The book calls cinema and media historians to pay more attention to these early movie-going queer, female adolescents, and to recognize their formative role not in queering fandom, but in inventing it as the participatory, queer, sensory, and worldbuilding range of practices that persist into the present."" * Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film *"

Author Information

Diana W. Anselmo is a feminist film historian and a queer immigrant. Her work has been featured in a number of journals, including Screen, Camera Obscura, Film History, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Journal of Women's History. Her research has received support from the Fulbright/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, and the International Association for Media and History, among others.

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