{"product_id":"classical-hollywood-cinema-sexuality-and-the-politics-of-the-face-paperback-softback","title":"Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClassical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face\u003c\/em\u003e examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood – Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces.\u003cbr\u003e Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of “to-be-looked-at-ness” is countered by a hermeneutics of “to-be-seen-through-ness.” The latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a hermeneutics of gaze; the iconomic female faces of classical Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. \u003cem\u003eClassical Holly Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the tension between the two through detailed readings of \u003cem\u003eNinotchka, Sunset Boulevard, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSuddenly, Last Summer \u003c\/em\u003ein the context of early and mid-century cinema and culture. It includes, for instance, an analysis of D. W. Griffith and blackface, the Stonewall riots and the coming-into-voice of the modern gay subject, several major films by Hitchcock, \u003cem\u003eCitizen Kane\u003c\/em\u003e, and the emergence of rival standards of beauty, both female and male, in figures such as Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. \u003cbr\u003e This is an important study for students of queer theory, film theory and history, and gender and sexuality studies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45566120624366,"sku":"9780367561796","price":67.19,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780367561796.jpg?v=1720689880","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/classical-hollywood-cinema-sexuality-and-the-politics-of-the-face-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}