“A Queer Feeling When I Look at You”
2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 7; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1300/j159v07n01_06
ISSN1529-9724
Autores Tópico(s)Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
ResumoAbstract In three classic Hollywood romantic comedies by openly gay director George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, we find constellations of non-traditional performances of gender and sexual orientation. Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Holiday (1938), and The Philadelphia Story (1940) offer both overt and subtle resistance to monogamous, heteronormative relationship structures through bisexual and other queerly configured romantic triangles. These three films share historical closeness, the pairing of two actors known for their highly gender-typed performances, and relationship triangles centered on a secondary male character that models an alternative gender/sexuality and thereby heightens the bisexual and queer implications of the text.
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