Queer cinema in contemporary France : five directors / Todd W. Reeser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeser, Todd W., 1967- author.

Series:

French film directors.

French film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ducastel, Olivier.

Martineau, Jacques.

Guiraudie, Alain, 1964-.

Guiraudie, Alain.

Lifshitz, Sébastien, 1968-.

Lifshitz, Sébastien.

Sciamma, Céline, 1980-.

Sciamma, Céline.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Sexual minorities in motion pictures.

Gay people in motion pictures.

Homosexuality and motion pictures--France.

Homosexuality and motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

"What does queer signify in twenty-first-century French film? How are lesbian, gay, and trans* characters represented on screen? The book responds to these questions via the cinema of five emblematic directors: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz, and Céline Sciamma. From gay sex at a nudist beach to lesbian love at a high school swimming pool, from gay road trips across France to transgender journeys through time, the films treated in this study raise a host of key questions about queerness in this century. From award-winners such as Stranger by the Lake and Portrait of a Lady on Fire to the lesser-known Family Tree and Open Bodies, these productions gesture toward an optimistic future for LGBTQ characters and for the world in which they live, love, and desire. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of queerness across the directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown works to their later, major films. Whether they are white, beur, or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans*, or queer, the characters open up oppressive notions of hetero- and cisnormativity to something new, something unexpected, and something oriented towards the future.

Contents:

Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau: moving normative structures

Alain Guiraudie: queering space, age, relationality

Sébastien Lifshitz: documenting movements in time and space

Céline Sciamma: the look of queer representation.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 May 2026).

Includes filmograpies and index.

ISBN:

9781526141071

1526141078

OCLC:

1467876284