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 Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--France.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Sexual minorities in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

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

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes filmograpies and index.

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ISBN:

9781526141071

1526141078

OCLC:

1467876284