Montgomery Clift, queer star / Elisabetta Girelli.

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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Main Author: Girelli, Elisabetta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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505 0 |a 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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