Suffering Sappho!
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2826-1 (ISBN)
Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons—the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire.
Supplemental images of interest related to this title: George and Lomas; Connie Minerva; Cat On Hot Tin; and Beulah and Oriole.
BARBARA JANE BRICKMAN is an associate professor of media and gender studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of two books, New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film and Grease: Gender, Nostalgia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era, and is the founder and director of the Druid City Girls Media Program.
Introduction
1 The Big “Lesbian” Show in Postwar American Culture, a History
2 Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”
3 A Strange Desire That Never Dies: Monstrous Lesbian Camp at the Movies
4 Spinsters, Career Gals, and Butch Comedy in 1950s Television
5 Amazon Princesses and Sorority Queers, or the Golden Age(s)
of Comic Lesbians
6 Sexual Outlaw: Disidentification, Race, and the Postwar Lesbian Rebel
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Filmography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.11.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 15 B-W photographs |
Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 481 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-9788-2826-8 / 1978828268 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-2826-1 / 9781978828261 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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