Congrats to Professor of French and Department Chair Todd Reeser on the publication of his new book, which treats queer film in five French directors: Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma.
Description of book:
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.
This book has been published at Manchester University Press in the "French Film Directors" book series.
CONTENTS:
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