Lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s together with all forms of "sex perversion." Through close readings of gothics, ghost films, and maternal melodramas addressed to female audiences, Uninvite…
La 4e de couverture indique : "The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues tha…
Vampires & violets: lesbians in film
by Weiss, Andrea, (Film producer)
fromA Penguin Book
A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the crossdressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popula…
A Queer Film Classic: the 1996 film by Indian-born director Deepa Mehta about the burgeoning relationship between the wives of two brothers who have abandoned them emotionally. The film's unprecedented lesbian themes led to riots outside cinemas in India and necessitated police …
