A Queer Way of Feeling

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.

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