Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five Directors (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526182388)

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.

Author: Todd Reeser
ISBN-10: 1526182386
ISBN-13: 9781526182388
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.72d