Nostalgia for Neverlands: Cult Films, Camp, and Cobra Woman
Abstract:
Artist Jack Smith’s veneration in prose and film of 1940s film actress Maria Montez (Cobra Woman) reveals that within the camp sensibility lies a nostalgic desire for an invented world, an impossible past, where a queer community could recover a homeland unavailable in the unaccepting reality of 20th century America.
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