Hollywood Androgyny - Softcover

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca

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9780231084673: Hollywood Androgyny

Synopsis

The subject is cross-dressing, transvestism, and other kinds of gender-bending in Hollywood movies. The first edition was published in 1985; the second includes a new preface and brings film coverage up through the 1990s. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Book Description

A renowned film scholar reveals the surprisingly frequent instances of cross-dressing, transvestism, and every kind of gender-bending in more than 250 films from Sylvia Scarlett to The Crying Game.

About the Author

Recbecca Bell-Metereau spent two years in Africa in the Peace Corps, teaching at the Univesity of Chad, and serving as an interpreter for famine relief efforts in the Sahara. She received her masters and doctorate in literature and film studies from Indiana University, and has taught literature and film at southwest Texas state University since 1981.

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