Impossible bodies: feminity and masculinity at the movies
In: Comedia
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Impossible bodies, compromised positions 1 -- PART I -- Gesturing toward genres 13 -- 1 Visible difference and flex appeal: The body, sex, sexuality and race in the Pumping Iron films 15 -- 2 When is a lesbian not a lesbian? The lesbian continuum and the mainstream femme film 31 -- 3 Nouveaux westerns for the 1990s: Genre offshoots, audience reroutes 51 -- PART II -- Siding with sidekicks 69 -- 4 Cruisin' for a bruisin': Hollywood's deadly (lesbian) dolls 71 -- 5 Swede as "Other" 91 -- 6 Latinas in La-La Land: From bit part to starlet in "indie" and mainstream films 109 -- PART III -- Staring at stars 123 -- 7 Channeling desire, making Whoopi 125 -- 8 The aging Clint 141 -- 9 Marketing Dolly dialectics: "The Sky is Green, the Grass is Blue" 157
