Comedy · Essays · LGBT & Queer
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: Queering/Queered Heterosexuality in “Career Girl” Films of the 1950s and ’60s
“Perhaps Hollywood, in trying to engage in queer possibilities for its narratives and with its audiences, could only put up a resistance to the binaries in the dominant culture through[…]


Lorrie Palmer was up late one night when The Best of Everything came on TV and she liked the grand drama of it all, and the nifty set design (which makes Mad Men now seem eerily familiar). She's approaching the dissertation phase of a PhD in Film & Media at Indiana University, and her ruminations have appeared in Camera Obscura (#67), The Velvet Light Trap (also #67), and several anthologies that examine gender/genre, cyborgs, superheroes, and TV sci-fi. 




