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Cinematic Queerness

Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films

Cristina Johnston editor Florian Grandena editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Published:16th Apr '11

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The last three decades have witnessed the proliferation of gay/lesbian-themed films both on our screens and at international film festivals. This trend – termed ‘hypervisibility’ by Julianne Pidduck – has gone far beyond the boundaries of countries with a multicultural tradition and now reaches many territories, including the French-speaking world. What is the narrative and thematic originality of such films in French-speaking contexts? Do such feature films develop problematics and approaches specific to areas such as metropolitan France or Francophone Canada?
The sixteen essays included in this collection (six in English and ten in French) aim to answer to such questions by offering in-depth and challenging discussions of film productions from France and Quebec, ranging from Patrice Chéreau’s L’Homme blessé/The Wounded Man (1983) via Josiane Balasko’s Gazon maudit (1995) to Jean-Marc Vallée’s C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005). Works by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Sébastien Lifshitz, Gaël Morel, François Ozon and Léa Pool are also examined.

«‘Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films’ is coherently organized around the concept of hypervisibility, explored from a variety of different critical and theoretical perspectives and beyond the Anglophone world. Its originality and importance lie in the conjunction of Quebec and France and in the attention paid simultaneously to close textual analysis, both formal and thematic, and to the specificity of socio-cultural context.» (Carolyn A. Durham, H-France Review 14, 2014)

ISBN: 9783034301831

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 520g

350 pages

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