Kiki Loveday
Biographic Data
| ID | 6807826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kiki Loveday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kiki |
| FAMILY NAME | Loveday |
| SIGNATURE | LOVEDAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sapho Kiss
In 1896 ‘the Nethersole kiss’ revolutionized the stage kiss and made legitimate-stage actress Olga Nethersole a household name. This article considers Olga Nethersole’s queer influence on the early erotic genres of the kissing film and the ‘stag’ film, arguing that she originated the mainstream Sapphic tropes of the twentieth century. Leaning on foundational texts by Shelley Stamp, Charles Musser and Linda Williams and drawing on recent work by S…
The Pioneer Paradigm
This essay considers the deployment of a nineteenth-century white-supremacist imaginary within popular culture and, more curiously, within feminist media historiography. Tracing the paradoxical figure of the “female film pioneer” to groundbreaking work by Ally Acker and Jane Gaines in the 1990s, I historicize how the “pioneers” initially functioned as strategic interventions in a white masculinist landscape, but argue that they have since become …
The Kiss
The Kiss (1896) is among the most iconic artifacts of American cinema; yet, the film has long puzzled film scholars. At the advent of cinema, why did audiences respond to this seemingly simple kiss with extreme visceral reactions such as hysterical laughter or condemnation of the film as pornography? This paper reconsiders The Kiss in light of the recently rediscovered Something Good—Negro Kiss (1898) placing both these films in relation to actor…
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The Pioneer Paradigm
This essay considers the deployment of a nineteenth-century white-supremacist imaginary within popular culture and, more curiously, within feminist media historiography. Tracing the paradoxical figure of the “female film pioneer” to groundbreaking work by Ally Acker and Jane Gaines in the 1990s, I historicize how the “pioneers” initially functioned as strategic interventions in a white masculinist landscape, but argue that they have since become …
The Kiss
The Kiss (1896) is among the most iconic artifacts of American cinema; yet, the film has long puzzled film scholars. At the advent of cinema, why did audiences respond to this seemingly simple kiss with extreme visceral reactions such as hysterical laughter or condemnation of the film as pornography? This paper reconsiders The Kiss in light of the recently rediscovered Something Good—Negro Kiss (1898) placing both these films in relation to actor…
Sapho Kiss
In 1896 ‘the Nethersole kiss’ revolutionized the stage kiss and made legitimate-stage actress Olga Nethersole a household name. This article considers Olga Nethersole’s queer influence on the early erotic genres of the kissing film and the ‘stag’ film, arguing that she originated the mainstream Sapphic tropes of the twentieth century. Leaning on foundational texts by Shelley Stamp, Charles Musser and Linda Williams and drawing on recent work by S…
Art (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works)