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Queer cinema in contemporary France

Five directors

By Todd Reeser

Queer cinema in contemporary France
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  • ISBN: 9781526141064
  • Publish Date: Aug 2022
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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  • ISBN: 9781526182388
  • Publish Date: Oct 2024
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    Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with wide international release. Whether having sex on the beach or kissing in the high school swimming pool, these cinematic characters create or embody forward-looking, open-ended and optimistic forms of queerness and modes of living, loving and desiring. Whether they are white, beur or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.

    Reviews

    '[Reeser] deploys a theoretical approach that allows him to focus not on what queer is but on what queer does ... his book makes a unique contribution to the field: a work of reference that also opens to new developments.' David Caron, French Studies

    Contents

    Introduction: queer productions
    1 Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau: moving normative structures
    2 Alain Guiraudie: queering space, age, relationality
    3 Sébastien Lifshitz: documenting movements in time and space
    4 Céline Sciamma: the look of queer representation
    Filmographies
    Index

    Author

    Todd W. Reeser is Professor of French and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA

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