"A Queer Way of Feeling" Book Talk by Author, Diana W. Anselmo

Join new Film & Electronic Arts Department faculty member, Dr. Diana W. Anselmo as she discusses her new book A Queer Way of Feeling at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum on March 9th at 6:30pm.

  • When: Thursday, March 9th 6:30pm
  • Where: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Glenn Court Lobby, accessible from the main entrance off of Patron's Plaza on the bottom of the Brotman Hall pedestrian ramp and via the back entrance through the Horn Center 
  • Parking is available in the pyramid parking structure off Merriam Way. Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum is located on the lower campus of California State University, Long Beach in the Horn Center building. Individualized driving, walking, and public transportation directions available via Google Maps. For more parking information visit the museum website.

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Diana W. Anselmo, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies is a feminist film historian and queer immigrant. She is the author of A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood out February 2023, though University of California Press. 

A Queer Way of Feeling explores movie scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs crafted by average girls growing up in the United States during the 1910s. Stitching together established homoerotic conventions with a new celebrity culture, these girl fans used Hollywood cinema to make sense of feeling "queer" or "different from the norm."

"A rich and very valuable book. Anselmo does a fantastic job of melding American cultural
history, gender and sexuality studies, film history, and medical and psychological research
literature, bringing the work to a level that few film scholars attempt. The extraordinary
level of this work raises the bar for future feminist film history and historical film reception
studies."—Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, author of At the Picture Show: Small-Town Audiences and
the Creation of Movie Fan Culture

Purchase Diana’s book on Amazon and University of California Press (save 30% by using source code SAVE30 online at checkout on the ucpress website)

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