Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face av Paul (Professor of English Brandeis University MA USA) Morrison

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<P><EM>Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face</EM> examines the representation of iconic female faces in the golden age of Hollywood ¿ Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor ¿ and the gay male fetishization of those faces.<BR>   Classical Hollywood cinema is given to an aesthetic and ideological struggle between rival scopic economies: an erotics of ¿to-be-looked-at-ness¿ is countered by a hermeneutics of ¿to-be-seen-through-ness.¿  The latter emerges triumphant, but the legendary female faces of Hollywood resist, in their different ways, a coercive and normalizing knowledge, which is the source of the gay male investment in them. A disciplinary society privileges a hermeneutics of gaze; the iconomic female faces of classical Hollywood cinema demand an erotics. <EM>Classical Holly Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face </EM>explores the tension between the two through detailed readings of <EM>Ninotchka, Sun