This guide chiefly covers American and English films with some European samplings as well. It contains chapters called: ‘Of Queer Interest’, ‘Of Lesbian Interest’, ‘Of Gay Male Interest’, ‘Of Transgender Interest’, and ‘Favorite Directors and Favorite Stars’.
In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. Potter sees the emergence of lesbian figures as only the most visible but belated outcome of multiple sexuality effects. Early cinema reconfigured older erotic modalities, articulated new–though incoherent–sexual categories, and generated novel forms of queer … Read more