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11%OFFLaura Horak - Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 - 9780813574820 - V9780813574820
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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

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Description for Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 Paperback. .
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association
Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation​


Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, and Katharine Hepburn all made lasting impressions with the cinematic cross-dressing they performed onscreen. What few modern viewers realize, however, is that these seemingly daring performances of the 1930s actually came at the tail end of a long wave of gender-bending films that included more than 400 movies featuring women dressed as men.
 
Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, looking ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813574820
SKU
V9780813574820
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About Laura Horak
LAURA HORAK is an assistant professor of film studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the coeditor of an award-winning book, Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space.  

Reviews for Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934
"Horak has produced a meticulously researched, astutely argued, and highly readable text … her use of archival materials is impeccable and her filmic and historical analyses clearly display a nuanced understanding of her topic."
Publishers Weekly
"This fascinating and well-written treatise is a laudable addition to film scholarship and a must-purchase for academic collections with concentrations in film ... Read more

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