Hollywood and the Killer Lesbian    by Robert Cettl
Price: $4.99 USD. 10610 words. Published by Wider Screenings | Transgressor  on January 9, 2013. .
Amidst the socio-sexual upheavals of the 1970s, Hollywood used a re-envisioning of the detective character from traditional film noir to essay the threat to heterosexual patriarchy posed by transgressive homosexuality. Thus, in one 1972 film emerged American cinema's way of dealing with that threat - the archetype of the Killer Lesbian was cemented!