Montgomery Clift, Queer Star /

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Strikingly beautiful and exceptionally talented, Montgomery Clift was at the peak of his fame in 1956 when a devastating car crash nearly destroyed his face. While this traumatic event robbed him of his heartthrob status and turned him into a somewhat disturbing, socially alienated character, the au...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girelli, Elisabetta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Clift, Montgomery.
Clift, Montgomery > Criticism and interpretation.
Queer theory.
Homosexuality and motion pictures.
Gay motion picture actors and actresses.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Theorie queer.
Gay motion picture actors and actresses > United States.
Homosexuality and motion pictures > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Montgomery Clift and queer theory
  • Irruption in Hollywood : the beautiful boy
  • The peak of stardom : desire, multiplicity, deviancy
  • The 1956 car accident and a new queerness
  • The final period : "abnormality," asexuality, asynchrony
  • Epilogue.

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