{"product_id":"lesbian-cinema-after-queer-theory-clara-bradbury-rance-9781474435390","title":"Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeadline: \u003c\/strong\u003eA study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlurb\u003c\/strong\u003e: Lesbianism has received unprecedented screen time in the first decades of the twenty-first century, departing from a prior invisibility which historically was interrupted only by invocations of pathologisation, isolation and tragedy. The lesbian's delayed and uneasy path towards visibility has coincided with queer theory's disruption of sexual identity categories, resulting in a comparable invisibility in the critical discourse that might have accounted for such significant representational transformations. In this paradoxical context, \u003ci\u003eTroubling Visibility: The Queerness of Lesbian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e theorises the kinds of cinematic language through which desire can be given visual form. Scrutinising the conflations and obscurations induced by legitimacy when sexuality is made visible through sex, the book proposes a feminist framework for understanding the queerness of lesbianism that unsettles the \"visibility imperative\". Rather than charting a narrative of representational progress, shoring up the lesbian's categorisation in the newly available terms of the visible, the book reads contemporary cinema through the theories of sexuality that problematise lesbian legibility itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalyses contemporary films in the context of long-standing theoretical debates and representational paradigms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntervenes in questions of visibility, progress and identity politics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores lesbian cinema in the context of political, social and cultural transformations in \u003cb\u003eLGBTQ+\u003c\/b\u003e civil rights in the twenty-first century\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProposes the mutual, rather than synonymous, use of \"queer\" and \"lesbian\" to describe sexuality on screen\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together psychoanalysis, affect theory and theories of space and time\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eto explore the range of ways in which contemporary cinema makes desire legible\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKeywords: \u003c\/strong\u003equeer theory; feminist film theory; lesbian sexuality; film and gender; film and affect; identity politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubject: \u003c\/strong\u003e Film Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clara Bradbury-Rance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474435394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474435390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Clara Bradbury-Rance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990837297407,"sku":"9781474435390","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9149aad6-07d9-4fe8-90be-72f59241f50a.jpg?v=1683306970","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lesbian-cinema-after-queer-theory-clara-bradbury-rance-9781474435390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}