Queer Way of Feeling

Diana W. Anselmo is a feminist film historian and a queer immigrant. Her work has been featured in a number of journals, including Screen, Camera Obscura, Film History, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and the Journal of Women's History. Her research has received support from the Fulbright/Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard University, and the International Association for Media and History, among others.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Girl, Fan, Queer: Female Film Reception in the 1910s1. It Disquiets, It Delights: Same-Sex Attachments and Early Female Moviegoing 2. “Dear Flo”: Homoerotic Desire and Queer Identification in Private Fan Mail3. “If I Were a Man”: Gender-Bending in Girls’ Published Fan Poems 4. Girls, Pick Up Your Scissors: The Queer Makings of the “Movie Scrap Book” Fad 5. Different from Others: Movie-Illustrated Diaries, Cross-Dressing, and Circulated Discourses on Female Deviance6. A Coding of Queer Delights: Gender Nonconformity in Girls’ Movie Scrapbooks Epilogue: One of Us: The Corporatization of Female Fan Love and LaborNotes Illustration Credits Index

"The book calls cinema and media historians to pay more attention to these early movie-going queer, female adolescents, and to recognize their formative role not in queering fandom, but in inventing it as the participatory, queer, sensory, and worldbuilding range of practices that persist into the present."