French Queer Cinema

By: Nick Rees-Roberts

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Hardcover | 27 October 2008

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French Queer Cinema examines the representation of queer identities and sexualities in contemporary French filmmaking. This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video in France. French Queer Cinema addresses the emergence of a gay cinema in the French context since the late 1990s, including critical coverage of films by important contemporary directors such as François Ozon, Sebastien Lifshitz, Patrice Chereau, Andre Techine and Christophe Honore. Nick Rees-Roberts transposes contemporary Anglo-American Queer Theory to the study of French screen culture, drawing particular attention to issues of race and migration such as problematic fantasies of Arab masculinities in queer cinematic production. This theoretically-informed book engages with a number of fault-lines running through queer cultural representation in France including transgender dissent and the effects of AIDS and loss on the formation of queer identities and sexualities.Key Features*Provides a full, up-to-date account of the formation, reception and setting for contemporary queer film and video in France.*Situates cinematic representations of migration, social exclusion and queer sexualities in the context of recent repressive legislation on sex work and immigration.*Covers the work of less well-known directors such as Christophe Honore, Sebastien Lifshitz and Gaël Morel.

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Nick Rees-Roberts' volume is a welcome addition to French cinema studies. It is a thorough documentation and analysis of representations of queerness in contemporary French film and is a work that engages a wide variety of subjects including the depiction of minorities, independent and auteur films, and pornography. The author ably shows the intersections between queer subjects and AIDS, republican values, identity politics, inscriptions of sexualities in daily life, and other contemporary concerns. This volume is a valuable addition to our understanding of post-modern French culture and will be of great value to students and researchers alike. -- Professor Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois Nick Rees-Roberts' volume is a welcome addition to French cinema studies. It is a thorough documentation and analysis of representations of queerness in contemporary French film and is a work that engages a wide variety of subjects including the depiction of minorities, independent and auteur films, and pornography. The author ably shows the intersections between queer subjects and AIDS, republican values, identity politics, inscriptions of sexualities in daily life, and other contemporary concerns. This volume is a valuable addition to our understanding of post-modern French culture and will be of great value to students and researchers alike.

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Introduction	p. 1
French	p. 2
Queer	p. 4
Cinema	p. 6
Beur Masculinity and Queer Fantasy	p. 13
Black/Blanc/Beur	p. 15
Postcolonial Pornography	p. 19
The Beur Faces of French. Queer Cinema	p. 24
Queering Migrations	p. 38
Down and Out: Immigrant Poverty and Queer Sexuality	p. 43
Fantasy France	p. 45
Reality France	p. 48
Threesomes	p. 53
Mauvais Genres: Transgender and Gay Identity	p. 67
Shoot and Run	p. 67
Get Therapy	p. 71
Transgender Screens	p. 74
From Transgender to AIDS	p. 79
Queer Sexuality, AIDS and Loss	p. 89
Families and Form	p. 90
Queer Families	p. 94
AIDS Film	p. 100
The Demy Revival	p. 109
Not-about-AIDS Film	p. 112
Witnessing AIDS	p. 117
The Emergence of Queer DIY Video	p. 129
Post-Porn	p. 133
Lesbian Porn	p. 138
Pop Porn	p. 142
Concluding Remarks and Emerging Trends	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 159
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