Queer cinema in Europe /

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Imprint:	Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect Books, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (227 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Homosexuality in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Europe -- History. Homosexuality in motion pictures. Motion pictures. Europe. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11201705

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Other authors / contributors:	Griffiths, Robin (Robin Mark)
ISBN:	9781841502519 1841502510 1841500798 9781841500799 1281776238 9781281776235 1841500798 9781841500799 9786611776237 6611776230
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	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 Fr.
Other form:	Print version: Queer cinema in Europe. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2008 1841500798
Standard no.:	9786611776237

Table of Contents:

Introduction: contesting borders: mapping a European queer cinema / Robin Griffiths
Queering the family in Francois Ozon's Sitcom / Michelle Chilcoat
Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s / Todd W. Reeser
The films of Ducastel and Martineau: gay identity, the family, and the autobiographical self / Christopher Pullen
The body picturesque: the films of Bavo Defurne / Michael Williams
The mechanical reproduction of melodrama: Matthias Muller's 'home' movies / Robert L. Cagle
The animated queer / Aylish Wood
Bars to understanding? Depictions of the 'gay bar' in film with specific reference to Coming out, Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful thing / Steve Wharton
Queer as Turk: a journey to three queer melodramas / Baris Kilicbay
Bodies without borders? Queer cinema and sexuality after the fall / Robin Griffiths
School is out: British 'coming out' films in the 1990s / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
Trans-Europe success: Dirk Bogarde's international queer stardom / Glyn Davis
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 / Andrea Webber
Berlin is running: Olympic memories and queer performances / Andrew Webber
Transgressive drag kings, defying dildoed dykes: a look at contemporary Swedish queer film / Louise Wallenberg.

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