The American Dream of Authentic Personhood: Homosexuality, Class, and the Normative Individual in U.S. Queer Male Impostor Films (1970-2009)

As a key discursive nodal point of abnormal personhood, the homosexual has been featured in an extensive stream of Hollywood movies from the early 1940s onwards. More specifically, since the end of the 1960s, a series of mainstream U.S. films have come out about queer fraudsters. Impostors assume an...

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Main Author: Katalin Kis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2017-01-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/11740