Table of Contents

Introduction / Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty 1 Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic / Robin Wood 12 Lesbians and Films / Edith Becker, Michelle Citron, Julia Lesage, and B. Ruby Rich 25 The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film / Chris Straayer 44 The Great Escape / Al LaValley 60 There's Something Queer Here / Alexander Doty 71 Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White 91 The Ambiguities of "Lesbian" Viewing Pleasure: The (Dis)articulations of Black Widow / Valerie Traub 115 Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur 167 Dossier on Hitchcock / Introduction by Alexander Doty 183 Hitchcock's Homophobia / John Hepworth (with "Letter to the Editor" by Robin Wood and "Response" by John Hepworth) 186 The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia / Robin Wood 197 "Crisscross": Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train / Sabrina Barton 216 "I'm not the sort of person men marry": Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein 239 The Queer Voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp 262 Flaming Closets / Michael Moon 282 Men's Pornography: Gay vs. Straight / Thomas Waugh 307 Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates / Heather Findlay 328 Tom of Finland: An Appreciation / Nayland Blake 343 Visible Lesions: Images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover 354 Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext / Bruce La Bruce 382 In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks / Essex Hemphill 389 Dossier on Popular Music / Introduction by Corey K. Creekmur 403 In Defense of Disco / Richard Dyer 407 Crossover Dreams: Lesbianism and Popular Music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein 416 Immaculate Connection / Michael Musto 427 The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music / Anthony Thomas 437 Children of Paradise: A Brief History of Queens / Mark Thompson 447 The Politics of Drag / Jeffrey Hilbert 463 Black Macho Revisited: Reflections of a Snap! Queen / Marlon Riggs 470 All Dressed Up But No Place to Go? Style Wars and the New Lesbianism / Arlene Stein 476 Commodity Lesbianism / Danae Clark 484 Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture Bibliography 501 Acknowledgments of Copyright 525 Contributors 528 Index 531

Reviews

"Out in Culture is out at last! Professors: cast aside your tattered old photocopies of the classic queer pop essays. General readers: fasten your seat belts; its going to be a bumpy night. In the spirit of Bette Davis (with sidekicks like Agnes Morehead and Pee Wee Herman), Creekmur and Doty take us on a wild ride through the pioneering work of 70s gay and lesbian criticism to the most recent essays in queer cultural studies."-Constance Penley, University of California, Santa Barbara