Film, Cinema, Classical Hollywood, Hollywood Studio System, Decadence, Modernism, Modernity, Classicism, Stardom, Queer, Queer Theory, Camp, Psychoanalysis, Fin-de-siècle, Temporality, Queer Temporality, Body, Embodiment, Abject, Misogyny, Monstrosity, Monstrous-Feminine, Grotesque, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), Strait-Jacket (1964), What's the Matter With Helen? (1971), Robert Aldrich, William Castle, Curtis Harrington, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Shelley Winters, Debbie Reynolds