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Sapphism on screen :

0748626638

1280833890

9780748626632

9781280833892

0748621652

9780748621651

b768606

Sapphism on screen :

[Book]

lesbian desire in French and Francophone cinema /

Lucille Cairns.

Edinburgh :

Edinburgh University Press,

©2006.

1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) :

illustrations

Filmography: pages 198-209.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214) and index.

Lesbian desire in film: coming to terms -- Bad girls: criminality -- Mad girls: pathology -- Girls on the edge: liminality -- Girls on top: sapphology -- Conclusion.

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This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. The corpus is unique in never before having been assembled, and represents a valuable tool not just for researchers but also for university teachers creating courses both on lesbianism in film and on sexuality in French cinema. A fair number of the 89 texts treated are mainstream films which have achieved high critical acclaim and/or high viewing figures: to cite just a few examples, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai des orf÷vres (1947), Louis Malle's Milou en mai (1989), Claude Chabrol's La CÃ♭rÃ♭monie (1995), AndrÃ♭ TÃ♭chinÃ♭'s Les Voleurs (1995), and FranÃʹois Ozon's Huit femmes (2001). As such, they have contributed to hegemonic constructions of and debate on (female) homosexuality, in a century wherein sexed/ gendered identity, including sexual orientation, has become a preeminent factor in the constitution of subjectivity. While such constructions and debate have a French-language specificity, and have been produced in distinct socio-political and cultural contexts, this study also engages in analytical comparisons with relevant anglophone films and their own distinct discursive contexts.

JSTOR

22573/cttk0nxr

Sapphism on screen.

9780748621651

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Lesbianism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures-- France.

Motion pictures-- French-speaking countries.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- France.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- French-speaking countries.

Filmkunst.

Films.

Homosexuality in motion pictures.

Lesbianism in motion pictures.

Lesbische liefde.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Film & Video-- History & Criticism.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Film & Video-- Reference.

France.

French-speaking countries.

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ATKA, JBGF

PER-- 004040

PER004030

Cairns, Lucille,1963-

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