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Impossible bodies

femininity and masculinity at the movies

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
237

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Impossible bodies, compromised positions 1
PART I
Gesturing toward genres 13
1 Visible difference and flex appeal: The body, sex, sexuality and race in the Pumping Iron films 15
2 When is a lesbian not a lesbian? The lesbian continuum and the mainstream femme film 31
3 Nouveaux westerns for the 1990s: Genre offshoots, audience reroutes 51
PART II
Siding with sidekicks 69
4 Cruisin' for a bruisin': Hollywood's deadly (lesbian) dolls 71
5 Swede as "Other" 91
6 Latinas in La-La Land: From bit part to starlet in "indie" and mainstream films 109
PART III
Staring at stars 123
7 Channeling desire, making Whoopi 125
8 The aging Clint 141
9 Marketing Dolly dialectics: "The Sky is Green, the Grass is Blue" 157.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Comedia

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/653
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.B62 H65 2002, PN1995.9.B62H65 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 237 p. :
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3950939M
Internet Archive
impossiblebodies0000holm
ISBN 10
0415185750, 0415185769
LCCN
2001044193
OCLC/WorldCat
606812893, 1057941552, 47297691
Library Thing
915698
Goodreads
769875
2022281

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