"This work examines and critiques the prevalence of "performance spaces" for lesbian identities in films, evaluating how queer femaleness is signified on the screen in contemporary cinema. It studies five films, the women perform their femaleness and their queerness both offstag…
Film audiences have grown used to seeing female characters in "performance roles," But queer women in film perform on yet another level. In addition to performing their gender for the world, they also perform their sexuality for either a general or an "insider" audience, in ways…
"This work examines and critiques the prevalence of "performance spaces" for lesbian identities in films, evaluating how queer femaleness is signified on the screen in contemporary cinema. It studies five films, the women perform their femaleness and their queerness both offstag…
"This work examines and critiques the prevalence of "performance spaces" for lesbian identities in films, evaluating how queer femaleness is signified on the screen in contemporary cinema. It studies five films, the women perform their femaleness and their queerness both offstag…