BackQueer Cinema in Contemporary France
Five Directors (book in English)
by Todd Reeser
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Countries > France
- French cinema, homosexuality, Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz, Céline Sciamma
- Publishing Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Collection
- French Film Directors
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 368 pages • 111 €
4 ¾ x 8 inches (12 x 20 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-5261-4106-4
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Book Presentation:
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.
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