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“Tell me about it, Stud”: Queering the Dancing Male Body in Musical and Dance Films of the 1970s and 1980s

Heterosexuality is coded on-screen in many musical films from the last century as a “celebratory ideal.” 1 This thesis explores the queer possibilities of the so-called heterosexual male in three films spanning a decade from 1977 with Badham's Saturday Night Fever and Grease (Kleiser, 1978), to 1987...

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Main Author: Kempton-Jones, Jessica
Other Authors: Smit, Alexia
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Centre for Film and Media Studies 2021
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