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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cairns, Lucille, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--France.

Motion pictures.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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/o

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Illustrations; CHAPTER ONE Lesbian Desire in Film: Coming to Terms; CHAPTER TWO Bad Girls: Criminality; CHAPTER THREE Mad Girls: Pathology; CHAPTER FOUR Girls on the Edge: Liminality; CHAPTER FIVE Girls on Top: Sapphology; CHAPTER SIX Conclusion; Annotated Filmography; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 5. 2017).

ISBN:

0-7486-5110-1

1-280-83389-0

9786610833894

0-7486-2663-8

OCLC:

476051890