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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara Jane BrickmanPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.059kg ISBN: 9781978828254ISBN 10: 197882825 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 10 November 2023 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Big “Lesbian” Show in Postwar American Culture, a History 2 Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko” 3 A Strange Desire That Never Dies: Monstrous Lesbian Camp at the Movies 4 Spinsters, Career Gals, and Butch Comedy in 1950s Television 5 Amazon Princesses and Sorority Queers, or the Golden Age(s) of Comic Lesbians 6 Sexual Outlaw: Disidentification, Race, and the Postwar Lesbian Rebel Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography IndexReviews"""Against the stereotypical image of the humorless no-frills lesbian--typically seen as yin to the gay male camp's yang--Barbara Brickman convincingly charts a history of midcentury lesbian camp subjects, performance, and spectatorship. In analyses of Tallulah Bankhead's radio shows, Eve Arden's TV show, lesbian pulp fiction, vampire movies, Wonder Woman comics, and Stormé DeLarverie's drag performance, among others, Brickman argues for a pre-Stonewall lesbian camp sensibility that helped lesbians negotiate and transmogrify postwar moral panics about lesbian identities and communities into humorous and theatrical play with sex and gender norms.""--Pamela Robertson Wojcik ""author of Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna"" ""Brickman provides an exhaustive view of the camp lesbian throughout popular culture. She deftly makes icons such as Tallulah Bankhead and Gladys Bentley come to life within the context of their own time, with accounts that are by turns hilarious and bittersweet.""--Peter B. Seely ""professor of Communication Arts, Benedictine University"" ""If, as Esther Newton has suggested, lesbian camp is a 'very rare bird, ' Barbara Brickman has found the flock. At long last, we have a well-researched and incisive book that shatters the fragility of the claim that camp is the sole province of gay males. Brickman delicately balances the seriousness the subject demands with a fond lightheartedness that it deserves."" --Bruce E. Drushel ""Ph.D., chair & professor, Department of Media, Journalism & Film, Miami University""" Author InformationBARBARA JANE BRICKMAN is an associate professor of media and gender studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of two books, New American Teenagers: The Lost Generation of Youth in 1970s Film and Grease: Gender, Nostalgia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era, and is the founder and director of the Druid City Girls Media Program. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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