Queer Cinema in Contemporary France

Five Directors (book in English)

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by Todd Reeser

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > France

Keywords

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.

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press