1st Edition
Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face
Chapter 1. The Face is a Politics
1. Face Value
2. The Face Machine
3. "Feelies"
4. The Thing Machine
5. Blackface / Black Face
6. The Face of a Woman
Chapter 2. Ninotchka
1. "The Face of the Century"
2. "The art of the isms"
3. "I want to be alone"
4. "As Good as It Gets"
Chapter 3 Sunset Boulevard
1. "The Old Screen Idols"
2. "We had faces!"
3. "I speak, therefore I am seen"
4. "What comes out of his mouth"
5. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my closeup"
Chapter 4. Suddenly, Last Summer
1. Snapping Queer
2. St. Sebastian’s Feet
3. Butt Cleavage
4. Devouring Creation
5. "I (almost) see a homosexual!"
Biography
Paul Morrison is Professor of English at Brandeis University and a member of the steering committee of the Program in Film, Television, and Interactive Media. He is the author of The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Paul de Man (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (New York: New York University Press, 2002), and numerous articles on literature, film, and sexuality.
