Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

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Montgomery clift, Elisabetta Girelli Queer Star Film studies | Gender and sexuality “Elisabetta Girelli has written an elegant, illuminating book on one of Hollywood’s most iconic male stars. Her sharp, thoroughly researched and theoretically informed analysis of Clift’s enigmatic persona delivers fresh insights into the full range of his films. Eroticised and pained in early roles and, in later ones, more conflicted and alienated, Clift’s ambiguous screen presence is persuasively read as a challenge to dominant contemporary norms and ideals of selfhood.” —Peter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of London “This eloquently written volume was often difficult for me to put down; I found it very engaging. It has clarity, precision, and focus, building well on work that has come before. It is destined to become the definitive scholarly work on Montgomery Clift.” —Christina Lane, associate professor of film studies at the University of Miami Elisabetta Girelli is a lecturer in film studies at the University of St. Andrews. She is the author of Beauty and the Beast: Italianness in British Cinema and of several scholarly articles on issues of identity, space, and history in film. Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series Cover photograph © Norman Parkinson Ltd / Courtesy Norman Parkinson Archive Cover design by Maya Whelan Wayne State University Press Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309 Girelli Montgomery clift, Queer star Girelli mech.indd 1 7/2/13 8:59 AM ...