Vampires & violets : lesbians in film /

A revelatory survey of lesbian identity in film--from the crossdressing stars like Garbo, Dietrich, and Hepburn to the vampire movies of the late '60s, Silkwood and The Color Purple. With wit and political acumen, Weiss reveals the concealed world of a host of movies both popular and forgotten.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weiss, Andrea (Film producer) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1993.
Subjects:	Lesbianism in motion pictures. Lesbians in motion pictures. Lesbian actresses. leszbikusok > filmművészeti ábrázolás. filmtörténet > 20. sz. Lesbianisme au cinéma. Lesbianism in motion pictures Lesbische Orientierung Bibel > Philemonbrief Geschichte Film
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction : The color violet
Female pleasures and perversions in the silent and early sound cinema
'A queer feeling when I look at you': Hollywood stars and lesbian spectatorship in the 1930s
Post-war Hollywood lesbians: whose happy ending?
The vampire lovers
Women's 'art' cinema and its lesbian potential
Transgressive cinema: lesbian independent film.