Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

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MONTGOMERY CLIFT, QUEER STAR Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series A complete listing of the books in this series can be found online at wsupress.wayne.edu General Editor Barry Keith Grant Brock University Advisory Editors Robert J. Burgoyne University of St. Andrews Caren J. Deming University of Arizona Patricia B. Erens School of the Art Institute of Chicago Peter X. Feng University of Delaware Lucy Fischer University of Pittsburgh Frances Gateward California State University, Northridge Tom Gunning University of Chicago Thomas Leitch University of Delaware Walter Metz Southern Illinois University Montgomery Clift, Queer Star Elisabetta Girelli Wayne State University Press Detroit © 2014 by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permission. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Girelli, Elisabetta. Montgomery Clift, queer star / Elisabetta Girelli. pages cm. — (Contemporary approaches to film and media series) Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography. ISBN 978-0-8143-3514-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8143-3924-4 (e-book) 1. Clift, Montgomery—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Gay motion picture actors and actresses—United States. 3. Homosexuality and motion pictures—United States. 4. Queer theory. I. Title. PN2287.C545G57 2013 791.43086'64—dc23 2013018444 To my mother, Marialuisa Macchia: “What a queer thing life is! So unlike anything else, don’t you know, if you see what I mean.” ...