id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mciguh3vjnfa3i3j6tc6gtdkom Barbara Braid Mad, Bad and Dangerous: Queering Lizzie Borden in Lizzie (2018) 2020 25 .pdf application/pdf 10246 714 61 known in queer cinema, this article discusses the famous suspect in this case, Lizzie Borden character (Chloë Sevigny) is queered in this film – not just by her lesbian relationship with Keywords: adaptation, Bryce Kass, lesbian, Lizzie Borden, Lizzie, Craig Macneill, neoVictorian, queer, textualisation. Lizzie Borden is a particularly elusive, queer spectre of late nineteenthcentury Massachusetts. The queering of Lizzie Borden's figure that this film replicates the Borden case frequently paired Lizzie's murderousness with queer hints at Lizzie's relationships with women and includes scenes of lesbian 2. Macneill's Lizzie: Lesbian Readings and Queer Re-Readings But Lizzie's and Bridget's queer fantasy of queer Lizzie in Macneill's film is especially attractive as it seems the story of Lizzie Borden make her narrative a queer spectre of the past – alibi, then the lesbian reading of Lizzie's and Bridget's relationship – as one cinematic motif in general and of Lizzie Borden as a queer figure in ./cache/work_mciguh3vjnfa3i3j6tc6gtdkom.pdf ./txt/work_mciguh3vjnfa3i3j6tc6gtdkom.txt