A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood

A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan—made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore how girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship. Pasting cross—dressed photos into personal scrapbooks and making love to movie actresses in epistolary writing, girl fans from all walks of life stitched together established homoerotic conventions with an emergent syntax ...