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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. " Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana W. AnselmoPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 4 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520299641ISBN 10: 0520299647 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 07 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviews"""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 InformationDiana 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |