Montgomery Clift, queer star

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girelli, Elisabetta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Series:Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
Subjects:
Clift, Montgomery > Criticism and interpretation.
Clift, Montgomery
Queer theory.
Homosexuality and motion pictures > United States.
Gay motion picture actors and actresses > United States.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Gay motion picture actors and actresses
Homosexuality and motion pictures
Queer theory
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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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