![]() ![]() ![]() Also Night of the Iguana which I had forgotten about entirely. Loved reading about Queen Christina and Morocco. Thankfully it is balanced out with the postivie aspects and also juxtaposed with medical information about how homosexuality was being thought of at specific points, what theories were around an dso forth so it is easy to compare those with the representations on screen. Basically all of her concerns are completely valid (each type of woman portrayed it either seen as a victim, a mother-daughter connection, or titillating objectifcation for men specifically) but it also makes it seemingly impossible for anyone to do anything right which I think is just as problematic. I do not agree with everything she says as she finds every single lesbian that has ever been in a film problematic. It has chapters on girls school films, Dietrich and Garbo, Post War Hollywood, Vampires, Art Cinema and Independent Films. Instead of being a historical account this is all theoretically based. Still, most everything Weiss writes about here is still relevant and/or interesting in some way. ![]() ![]() This book is pretty outdated in that it was written 20 years ago and a lot has changed in relation to lesbians in film since then. ![]()
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