Queer cinema in contemporary France
Five directors
By Todd Reeser
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- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-8238-8
- Pages: 344
- Price: £25.00
- Published Date: October 2024
- Series: French Film Directors Series
Description
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.
Reviews
'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
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
Author
Todd W. Reeser is Professor of French and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA