Immortal, Invisible
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Immortal, Invisible

Lesbians and the Moving Image

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Immortal, Invisible

Lesbians and the Moving Image

About this book

Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women. The contributors debate the practice of lesbian and queer film-making, from the queer cinema of Monika Treut to the work of lesbian film-makers Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller. They explore the pleasures and problems of lesbian spectatorship, both in mainstream Hollywood films including Aliens and Red Sonja, and in independent cinema from She Must be Seeing Things to Salmonberries and Desert Hearts. The authors tackle tricky questions: can a film such as Strictly Ballroom be both pleasurably camp and heterosexist? Is it ok to drool over dyke icons like Sigourney Weaver and kd lang? What makes a film lesbian, or queer, or even post-queer? What about showing sex on screen? And why do lesbian screen romances hardly ever have happy endings? Immortal, Invisible is splendidly illustrated with a selection of images from film and television texts.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
eBook ISBN
9781134842629
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Scienze della comunicazione

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Notes on contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: On invisibility and mortality
  11. 1. What is a Nice Lesbian Like You Doing in a Film Like This?
  12. 2. The Meaning of Treut?
  13. 3. Oranges are not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Lesbian Texts Cannot Reach
  14. 4. Salmonberries: Consuming kd lang
  15. 5. Sex in the Summer of ’88
  16. 6. ‘If You Don’t Play, You Can’t Win’ Desert Hearts and the Lesbian Romance Film
  17. 7. Portrait of a Production
  18. 8. The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister
  19. 9. On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship
  20. 10. Girl’s Camp? The Politics of Parody
  21. 11. Looking at Pumping Iron II: The Women
  22. 12. Desire and Design—Ripley Undressed
  23. 13. Visible Mortals: Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller Interviewed by Nazreen Memon
  24. Filmography
  25. Index