Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sbastien Lifshitz and Cline 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.
By:
Todd Reeser
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9781526182388
ISBN 10: 1526182386
Series: French Film Directors Series
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 -- .
Todd W. Reeser is Professor of French and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA
Reviews for Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors
'Reeser’s study of a selection of directors prominent in queer French cinema in the twenty-first century will be a valuable asset for students and researchers, both for the intelligent, detailed, and persuasive readings of the films by the directors as well as for the insights it offers concerning queer theory over the last forty years.' H-France Review -- .
