Daughters of Desire : Lesbian Representations in Film.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Filmography -- Introduction: Desire, Dyke-Icons, Mothers and Others Matter -- Part One: Desire -- 1. Lesbian Desire on the Screen: The Mother as Other: The Hunger -- 2. The Castration of Lesbian Desire in Cinema: A Matter of Some Agency: Sister George Not at Her Personal Best -- 3. European Lesbians in Film: Reformulating the Fetishization of Beauty: November Moon Falls At First Sight -- 4. Lesbian Desire for Bedding Lesbians in Cinema: Plural Positionalities: Claire of the Moon Wants to Go Fish . . . When Night Is Falling -- Part Two: Subtext -- 5. Lesbian Representations from Text to Screen: Reworking the Received: The Color Purple and Fried Green Tomatoes -- 6. Lesbians Come Out on Celluloid: Rage and Trauma as Subtext: Lianna on Thin Ice Listens to Nocturne -- 7. Early Cinema Lesbians in and out of the Closet: The Subtext Speaks the Unspeakable: Rebecca Seeks Queen Christina with Several Maidens in Uniform -- 8. Lesbian Spectating of Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse: Desperately Seeking Susan at the Bagdad Cafe Looking for Salmonberries and Fire -- 9. The Lesbian Subtext in Cinema: Resistant Readings: Thelma and Louise -- Bibliography -- Index.

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