French Queer Cinema

by Rees-roberts, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780748634187
• ISBN10: 0748634185
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-27
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Summary

French Queer Cinemareads queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video. While advances have been made in the research of queer representations in France, this is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video. French Queer Cinemaaddresses the socio-political context informing both queer DIY video and independent gay cinema, including films such as Patrice Chéreau's Ceux qui m'aiment prendront le train, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's Drôle de Félix, François Ozon's Le Temps qui reste, and André Téchiné's Les Témoins. Taking up recent Anglo-American research into queer migration, this book also considers gay fantasies of Arab (beur) men, as well as beur self-representation in Europe's fastest-selling gay DV porn production, Citébeur. Further chapters address transgender dissent and the effects of AIDS and loss on the formation of gay identities.

Author Biography

Nick Rees-Roberts is Lecturer in French, University of Bristol.

Table of Contents

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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