John Ford (Film Director)

Ford, John - 1895–1973, American film director, b. Cape Elizabeth, Maine, as John Martin Feeney. Ford began directing in 1917 after an apprenticeship with his brother Francis. Over the next 50 years, he brought a painterly eye, an appreciation of his actors' strengths, and a deep love of Americana to over 200 feature films. Although Ford set films in other parts of the country or world Read More...

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John Ford
by Andrew Sinclair. 306 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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1: The Long Voyage Away

2: The Signs from the Observatory

3: Straight Shooting

4: Directed by John Ford

5: Old Worlds, New Ways

6: Half-Genius, Half-Irish

7: An Inner Vision

8: Stagecoach: the Burial and Resurrection of the West

9: The Semaphore of Democracy

10: Preparations for a Private War

11: Theater of War

12: They Were Not Expendable

13: Faith and the Family

14: The Holding of the West

15: Another Peace, Another War

16: Repose and Unsettling

17: Old Concerns, New Times

18: What You Might See Anyplace

19: Last Word on the West

20: The End of a Time

21: Print the Legend

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Filmography

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John Ford's Stagecoach
by Barry Keith Grant. 243 pgs.

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Stagecoach is one of the classics of Hollywood cinema. Made in 1939, it revitalized the Western genre, served as a milestone for John Ford's career, and made John Wayne a star. This volume offers a rich overview of the film in essays by six leading film critics. Approaching Stagecoach from a variety of critical perspectives, it considers it within the contexts of authorship, genre, American history and culture. It also examines the film's commentary on race, class, gender and democracy, while remaining attentive to the film's artistry.

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Acknowledgments and Credits

Contributors

Introduction: Spokes in the Wheels

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1: Stagecoach and Hollywood's

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2: Dudley Nichols, Authorship, and Cultural Ethos in Stagecoach

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3: Historicizing John Ford, 1939

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4: Stagecoach and Racial Representation

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5: Class, Gender, and Frontier Democracy in Stagecoach

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6: Stagecoach and the Quest for Selfhood

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Reviews of Stagecoach

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John Ford: A Bio-Bibliography
by Bill Levy. 360 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Biography

Chronology

Filmography

1914-1923

1924-1933

1934-1943

1944-1953

1954-1963

1964-1973

Radio Credits

Radio, Television, Theater Credits

Television Credits

Theater Credits

Unrealized Projects

Bibliography

Additional Books, Articles, Other Written Sources with Significant Mention of John Ford

Dissertations

Documentaries

Fiction

Collections, Archival and Special Sources

Archival Collections: The United States

Archival Collections: Foreign

Special Sources

Awards and Honors

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4.

The American West in Film: Critical Approaches to the Western (Chap. 3 "John Ford")
by Jon Tuska. 304 pgs.

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Recent Titles In Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture

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Illustrations

Introduction

Part I Varieties Of Montage

1 Critical Theories About Western Films

2 The Structure of The Western Film

Part Ii Six Studies In Authorship (auteurisme)

3 John Ford

4 Howard Hawks

5 Henry Hathaway

6 Anthony Mann

7 Budd Boetticher

8 Sam Peckinpah

Part Iii Frontier Legends

9 Jesse James

10 Billy the Kid

11 "Wild Bill" Hickok

12 Wyatt Earp

13 Heroes in Defeat

14 Legendry and Historical Reality

Part Iv Types And Stereotypes

15 Women

16 Images of Indians

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Politics and Politicians in American Film ("Ford" begins on p. 11)
by Phillip L. Gianos. 216 pgs.

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Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century--a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great sources of dramatic real-life political and economic conflict--the Great Depression, the Cold War--in a way that attracts an audience without making it angry? How does an industry, which has from its beginnings been the subject of attacks from social, political and religious groups deal with political issues and conflicts? This book is an attempt to examine these questions; it is also an examination of some of the greatest and most interesting American films ever made--westerns, gangster films, comedies, war films, satires, and film biographies--to see what American films say about politics and politicians, and what these films, in turn, say about the audience for which they were produced.

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SERIES FOREWORD

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PREFACE

1: Making Movies

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2: Watching Movies

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3: Politics and the Film Industry

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4: Approach, Avoidance, and Accomodation: Movies and the Great Depression

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5: The Movies and the World War II

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6: The Cold War and the Vietnam in Film

7: Aspiration, Disillusionment, and Ambivalence: Politics and Politicians in Film

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REFERENCES

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About the Author
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A History of Narrative Film ("John Ford" begins on p. 312)
by David A. Cook. 1087 pgs.

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A History of Narrative Film

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Preface

Preface to the Third Edition

Acknowledgments

A Note on Method

A Note on Supplementary Material

A Note on Dates, Titles, and Stills

1: Origins

2: International Expansion, 1907-1918

3: D. W. Griffith and the Development of Narrative Form

4: German Cinema of the Weimar Period, 1919-1929

5: Soviet Silent Cinema and the Theory of Montage, 1917-1931

6: Hollywood in the Twenties

7: The Coming of Sound and Color, 1926-1935

8: The Sound Film and the American Studio System

9: Europe in the Thirties

10: Orson Welles and the Modern Sound Film

11: Wartime and Postwar Cinema: Italy and the United States, 1940-1951

12: Hollywood, 1952-1965

13: The French New Wave and Its Native Context

14: New Cinemas in Britain and the English-Speaking Commonwealth

15: European Renaissance: West

16: European Renaissance: East

17: The Former Soviet Union, 1945-Present

18: Wind from the East: Japan, India, and China

19: Third World Cinema

20: Hollywood, 1965—present

Glossary

Selective Bibliography for the Third Edition

Index
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You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949 ("John Ford (1895-1973)" begins on p. 166)
by Andrew Sarris. 573 pgs.

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Andrew Sarris has long been one of America's most celebrated writers on film, author of the seminal work The American Cinema, and for decades a highly regarded critic, first for The Village Voice and more recently for The New York Observer. Now comes Sarris's definitive statement on film, in a masterwork that has taken 25 years to complete. Here is a sweeping--and highly personal--history of American film, from the birth of the talkies (beginning with The Jazz Singer and Al Jolson's memorable line "You ain't heard nothin' yet") to the decline of the studio system. By far the largest section of the book celebrates the work of the great American film directors, with giants such as John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, and Howard Hawks examined film by film. Sarris also offers glowing portraits of major stars, from Garbo and Bogart to Ingrid Bergman, Margaret Sullavan, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Clark Gable, and Carole Lombard. There is a tour of the studios--Metro, Paramount, RKO, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal--revealing how each left its own particular stamp on film. And in perhaps the most interesting and original section, we are treated to an informative look at film genres--the musical, the screwball comedy, the horror picture, the gangster film, and the western. A lifetime of watching and thinking about cinema has gone into this book. It is the history that film buffs have been waiting for.

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Acknowledgement

Contents

Introduction

1: The Hollywood Studios

2: Genres

3: The Directors

4: Actors and Actresses

5: Guilty Pleasures

Appendix I: Academy Awards: Nominations and Winners, 1927-1949

Appendix II: New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1935-1949

Appendix III: Best Directors, 1927-1949

Appendix IV: Best Performances, 1929-1949

Index of Films

Index of Names
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The Oxford History of World Cinema ("John Ford" begins on p. 288)
by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 824 pgs.

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From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly popular entertainment medium. Covering all aspects of its development, stars, studios, and cultural impact, the book celebrates and chronicles over one hundred years of diverse achievement from westerns to the New Wave, from animation to the avant-garde, and from Hollywood to Hong Kong. The Oxford History of World Cinema tells the story of the major inventions and developments in the cinema business, its institutions, genres, and personnel, and they outline the evolution of national cinemas round the world--the varied and distinctive film traditions that have developed alongside Hollywood. A unique aspect of the book are the special inset features on the film-makers and personalities--Garbo and Godard, Keaton and Kurosawa, Bugs Bunny and Bergman--who have had an enduring impact in popular memory and cinematic lore. With over 280 illustrations, a full bibliography, and an extensive index, this is the buff's ultimate guide to cinema worldwide.

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Special Features

List of Colour Illustrations

General Introduction

1: Silent Cinema 1895-1930

Introduction

Origins and Survival

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Early Cinema

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Transitional Cinema

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The Hollywood Studio System

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The World-Wide Spread of Cinema

The First World War and the Crisis in Europe

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Tricks and Animation

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Comedy

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Documentary

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Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Serials

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French Silent Cinema

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Italy: Spectacle and Melodrama

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British Cinema from Hepworth to Hitchcock

Germany: the Weimar Years

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The Scandinavian Style

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Pre-Revolutionary Russia

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The Soviet Union and the Russian émigrés

Yiddish Cinema in Europe

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Japan: Before the Great Kanto Earthquake

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Music and the Silent Film

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The Heyday of the Silents

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2: Sound Cinema 1930-1960

Introduction

The Introduction of Sound

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Hollywood: the Triumph of the Studio System

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Censorship and Self-Regulation

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The Sound of Music

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Technology and Innovation

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Animation

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Cinema and Genre

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The Western

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The Musical

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Crime Movies

The Fantastic

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Documentary

Socialism, Fascism, and Democracy

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The Popular Art of French Cinema

Italy from Fascism to Neo-Realism

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Britain at the End of Empire

Germany: Nazism and After

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East Central Europe Before the Second World War

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Soviet Film Under Stalin

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Indian Cinema: Origins to Independence

China Before 1949

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The Classical Cinema in Japan

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The Emergence of Australian Film

Cinema in Latin America

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After the War

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Transformation of the Hollywood System

Independents and Mavericks

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3: The Modern Cinema 1960-1995

Introduction

Television and the Film Industry

The New Hollywood

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New Technologies

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Sex and Sensation

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The Black Presence in American Cinema

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Exploitation and the Mainstream

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Dreams and Nightmares in the Hollywood Blockbuster

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CinÉma-VÉritÉ and the New Documentary

Avant-Garde Film: the Second Wave

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Animation in the Post-Industrial Era

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Modern Film Music

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Art Cinema

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New Directions in French Cinema

Italy: Auteurs and After

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Spain After Franco

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British Cinema: the Search for Identity

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The New German Cinema

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East Germany: the Defa Story

Changing States in East Central Europe

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Russia After the Thaw

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Cinema in the Soviet Republics

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Turkish Cinema

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The Arab World

The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa

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Iranian Cinema

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India: Filming the Nation

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Indonesian Cinema

China After the Revolution

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Popular Cinema in Hong Kong

Taiwanese New Cinema

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The Modernization of Japanese Film

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New Australian Cinema

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New Zealand Cinema

Canadian Cinema/Cinéma Canadien

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New Cinemas in Latin America

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New Concepts of Cinema

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The Resurgence of Cinema

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Index

List of Picture Sources
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The Cinema and Ireland (Chap. IV "The Irishman in Hollywood")
by Anthony Slide. 138 pgs.

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Introduction

I. Native Irish Film Production

Ii. the American Film Producer in Ireland

Iii. Irish Literature and the Cinema

Iv. the Irishman in Hollywood

V. the Irish Image On American Screens

Notes

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Index
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The Western: From Silents to Cinerama (Chap. 7 "Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920")
by William K. Everson, George N. Fenin. 366 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

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Western History And

1: The Hollywood version

2: Contents and Moral Influence of the Western

3: The Primitives: Edwin S. Porter and Broncho Billy Anderson

4: David W.Griffith and Thomas H. Ince:1909-1913

5: William Surrey Hart and Realism

6: Tom Mix and Showmanship

7: Douglas Fairbanks and John Ford: 1913-1920

8: James Cruze's the and the Iron Horse

9: The Twenties

10: The Western Costume

11: The Thirties

13: The Forties

14: New Trends in the Postwar Western

15: The Stuntman and the Second Unit Director

16: Exeunt the "B"S, Enter Television

17: The Western's International Audience and the International Western

18: The Contemporary Western

Conclusion

Index
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Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture ("Acting like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine" begins on p. 167)
by Corey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty. 536 pgs.

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Lesbians and Film

Introduction

Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic

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Lesbians and Film

The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film

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The Great Escape

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There's Something Queer Here

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Supporting Character: The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead

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The Ambiguities of "Lesbian" Viewing Pleasure: The (Dis)articulations of Black Widow

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From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation: Mädchen in Uniform

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Acting Like a Man: Masculine Performance in My Darling Clementine

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Dossier on Hitchcock

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Hitchcock's Homophobia

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The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock's Homophobia

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Crisscross: Paranoia and Projection in Strangers on a Train

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I'm not the Sort of Person Men Marry: Monsters, Queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca

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The Queer Voice in Marnie

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Flaming Closets

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Men's Pornography: Gay vs. Straight

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Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates

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Tom of Finland: An Appreciation

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Visible Lesions: Images of the PWA

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Pee Wee Herman: The Homosexual Subtext

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In Living Color: Toms, Coons, Mammies, Faggots, and Bucks

Dossier on Popular Music

In Defense of Disco

Crossover Dreams: Lesbianism and Popular Music since the 1970s

Notes

Immaculate Connection

The House the Kids Built: The Gay Black Imprint on American Dance Music

Children of Paradise: A Brief History of Queens

The Politics of Drag

Black Macho Revisited Reflections of a Snap! Queen

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All Dressed Up, But No Place to Go?: Style Wars and the New Lesbianism

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Commodity Lesbianism

Notes

Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Popular Culture Bibliography

Acknowledgments of Copyright

Contributors

Index
12.

Poised between Savagery and Civilization: Forging Political Communities in Ford's Westerns, in Perspectives on Political Science
by Jeanne Heffernan. 5 pgs.

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The Western as Male Soap Opera: John Ford's 'Rio Grande,' in The Journal of Men's Studies
by Robert D. Leighninger Jr. 14 pgs.

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