Out in culture :

Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture / edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty. - Durham : Duke University Press, 1995. - viii, 535 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Series Q .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [501]-524) and index.

Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Lesbians and film / The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / The great escape / There's something queer here / Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Hitchcock's homophobia / The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / "I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / The queer voice in Marnie / Flaming closets / Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Dossier on popular music : introduction / In defense of disco / Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Immaculate connection / The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / The politics of drag / Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Commodity lesbianism / Robin Wood -- Edith Becker, Michelle Citron, Julia Lesage, and B. Ruby Rich -- Chris Straayer -- Al LaValley -- Alexander Doty -- Patricia White -- Valerie Traub -- B. Ruby Rich -- Corey K. Creekmur -- John Hepworth -- Robin Wood -- Sabrina Barton -- Rhona J. Berenstein -- Lucretia Knapp -- Michael Moon -- Thomas Waugh -- Heather Findlay -- Nayland Blake -- Jan Zita Grover -- Bruce La Bruce -- Essex Hemphill -- Corey K. Creekmur Richard Dyer -- Arlene Stein -- Michael Musto -- Anthony Thomas -- Mark Thompson -- Jeffrey Hilbert -- Marlon Riggs -- Arlene Stein -- Danae Clark.

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Gay men--Attitudes.--United States
Gay men--Social life and customs.--United States
Lesbians--Attitudes.--United States
Lesbians--Social life and customs.--United States
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