Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in classical Hollywood cinema– Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor – and the gay male fetishization of those faces.
Paul Morrison is Professor of English at Brandeis University and a member of the steering committee of the Program in Film, Television, and Interactive Media. He is the author of The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Paul de Man (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), The Explanation for Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (New York: New York University Press, 2002), and numerous articles on literature, film, and sexuality.