Flaming Closets

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic 12
5. Lesbians and Film 25
6. The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film 44
7. The Great Escape 60
8. There's Something Queer Here 71
9. Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead 91
10. The Ambiguities of "Lesbian" Viewing Pleasure: The (Dis)articulations of Black Widow 115
11. From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Modchen in Uniform 137
12. Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine 167
13. Dossier on Hitchcock
14. Introduction 183
15. Hitchcock's Homophobia John Hepworth (with "Letter to the Editor" by Robin WOod and "Response" 186
16. The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia 197
17. "Crisscross": Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train 216
18. "I'm not the sort of person men marry": Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca 239
19. The Queer Voice in Mamie 262
20. Flaming Closets 282
21. Men's Pornography: Gay vs. Straight 307
22. Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates 328
23. Tom of Finland: An Appreciation 343
24. Visible Lesions: Images ofthe PWA 354
25. Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext 382
26. In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks 389
27. Dossier on Popular Music
28. Introduction 403
29. In Defense of Disco 407
30. Crossover Dreams: Lesbianism and Popular Music since the 1970s 416
31. Immaculate Connection 427
32. The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music 437
33. Children of Paradise: A Brief History of Queens 447
34. The Politics of Drag 463
35. Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen 470
36. All Dressed Up But No Place to Go? Style Wars and the New Lesbianism 476
37. Commodity Lesbianism 484
38. Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture Bibliography 501
39. Acknowledgments of Copyright 525
40. Contributors 528
41. Index 531