Queer cinema in contemporary France

Five directors

Todd W. Reeser

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781526141064
• eBook ISBN: 9781526141088
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film Direction & Production

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of plates
• Series editors’ foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: queer productions
• 1 Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau: moving normative structures
• 2 Alain Guiraudie: queering space, age, relationality
• 3 Sébastien Lifshitz: documenting movements in time and space
• 4 Céline Sciamma: the look of queer representation
• Filmographies
• Index