Sapphism on screen : lesbian desire in French and Francophone cinema / Lucille Cairns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Lucille, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Lesbianism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--France.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

France.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--France.

Motion pictures--French-speaking countries.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--French-speaking countries.

French-speaking countries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2006]

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. The corpus is unique in never before having been assembled, and represents a valuable tool not just for researchers but also for university teachers creating courses both on lesbianism in film and on sexuality in French cinema. A fair number of the 89 texts treated are mainstream films which have achieved high critical acclaim and/or high viewing figures: to cite just a few examples, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai des orf÷vres (1947), Louis Malle's Milou en mai (1989), Claude Chabrol's La CÃ♭rÃ♭monie (1995), AndrÃ♭ TÃ♭chinÃ♭'s Les Voleurs (1995), and FranÃʹois Ozon's Huit femmes (2001). As such, they have contributed to hegemonic constructions of and debate on (female) homosexuality, in a century wherein sexed/ gendered identity, including sexual orientation, has become a preeminent factor in the constitution of subjectivity. While such constructions and debate have a French-language specificity, and have been produced in distinct socio-political and cultural contexts, this study also engages in analytical comparisons with relevant anglophone films and their own distinct discursive contexts.

Contents:

Lesbian desire in film: coming to terms

Bad girls: criminality

Mad girls: pathology

Girls on the edge: liminality

Girls on top: sapphology

Conclusion.

Notes:

Filmography: pages 198-209.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Cairns, Lucille, 1963- Sapphism on screen.

ISBN:

9780748626632

0748626638

1280833890

9781280833892

OCLC:

150890043

Publisher Number:

10.3366/j.ctt1r27ht

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.