Format:
1 Online-Ressource (234 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781841502519
Content:
This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representation and desire within a uniquely diverse and divergent European context. And raise many provocative questions about understandings of gender, sexuality and identity in film that spill across a variety of national borders, cultures and traditions. Topics include: - queer nationality and the films of François Ozon, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau - the sexual politics of post-communist Prague - depictions of the 'Gay Bar' in such films as Coming Out, Beautiful Thing and Les Nuits Fauves - queer performance and spectatorship in Lola und Bilidikid and Hamam - the Swedish 'Drag King' scene - Monika Treut and queer German cinema - the subversive poetics of Bavo Defurne and Matthias Müller - Dirk Bogarde and international queer stardom. 'Queer Cinema in Europe' demonstrates the vital yet under-valued role that European filmmakers have played in anticipating notions of queer subjectivity in the new millennium
Content:
Front Cover -- Prelimiary Pages -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Contesting Borders: Mapping a European Queer Cinema -- Part One: Queer Identities -- Chapter 1: Queering the Family in François Ozon's Sitcom -- Chapter 2: Representing Gay Male Domesticity in French Film of the Late 1990s -- Chapter 3: The Films of Ducastel and Martineau: Gay Identity, the Family, and the Autobiographical Self -- Part Two: Queer Aesthetics -- Chapter 4: The Body Picturesque: The Films of Bavo Defurne -- Chapter 5: The Mechanical Reproduction of Melodrama: Matthias Müller's 'Home' Movies -- Chapter 6: The Animated Queer -- Part Three: Queer Spaces -- Chapter 7: Bars to Understanding?: Depictions of the 'Gay Bar' in Film with Specific Reference to Coming Out, Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful Thing -- Chapter 8: Queer as Turk: A Journey to Three Queer Melodramas -- Chapter 9: Bodies without Borders? Queer Cinema and Sexuality after the Fall -- Chapter 10: School Is Out: British 'Coming Out' Films in the 1990s -- Part Four: Queer Performances -- Chapter 11: Trans-Europe Success: Dirk Bogarde's International Queer Stardom -- Chapter 12: Subjection and Power in Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's Seduction - The Cruel Woman: An Extension of the Configuration of Power in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Late Oeuvre -- Chapter 13: Berlin Is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances -- Chapter 14: Transgressive Drag Kings, Defying Dildoed Dykes: A Look at Contemporary Swedish Queer Film -- Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781841500799
Additional Edition:
Print version Griffiths, Robin Queer Cinema in Europe Bristol : Intellect Books Ltd,c2008 ISBN 9781841500799
Language:
English
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