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    Hollywood and the Killer Lesbian

    By Robert Cettl

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    Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality.

    Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with that threat - the archetype of the Killer Lesbian was cemented! Starring James Garner as the detective and Hollywood veteran June Allyson as the killer lesbian, the film was buried in a wave of detective movies that included such as Harper, The Long Goodbye, Shamus, The Drowning Pool, Marlowe, Farewell My Lovely and the remake of The Big Sleep.

    Though long forgotten, the film remains the premiere example of how a fearful, reactionary and heterosexist Hollywood agenda sought to construct and validate stereotypes in order to deal with the perceived threat of the gay rights movement of the early 1970s. This was the moralizing propaganda of heterosexual patriachal authority and its need to sublimate women and police, control, demonize and ultimately eliminate lesbianism from ever achieving public acceptability.

    This ebook is an in-depth deconstructionist analysis of that movie and its establishment of the Killer Lesbian figure in Hollywood lore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Cettl
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301040087
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    Hollywood and the Killer Lesbian
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    Robert Cettl

    A freelance author and former Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA) SAR Research Fellow, Robert Cettl (HBA, GCTESOL, GDIS, MTESOL) is an English lecturer at the University of Jinan, Shandong, China. Robert's non-fiction writing is published through McFarland & Co. Inc. and Bloomsbury Academic in the USA and collected by such as Yale University Library, the British Film Institute and the national libraries of Australia and China. He is also an experimental ethnographic filmmaker whose digital feature films are collected by the NFSA and soon to be released on Video-on-Demand and whose short videos about living and working in China can be found on his YouTube channel.

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