Description
Book SynopsisThe last three decades have witnessed the proliferation of gay/lesbian-themed films both on our screens and at international film festivals. This trend – termed ‘hypervisibility’ by Julianne Pidduck – has gone far beyond the boundaries of countries with a multicultural tradition and now reaches many territories, including the French-speaking world. What is the narrative and thematic originality of such films in French-speaking contexts? Do such feature films develop problematics and approaches specific to areas such as metropolitan France or Francophone Canada?
The sixteen essays included in this collection (six in English and ten in French) aim to answer to such questions by offering in-depth and challenging discussions of film productions from France and Quebec, ranging from Patrice Chéreau’s
L’Homme blessé/The Wounded Man (1983) via Josiane Balasko’s
Gazon maudit (1995) to Jean-Marc Vallée’s
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005). Works by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Sébastien Lifshitz, Gaël Morel, François Ozon and Léa Pool are also examined.
Trade Review«‘Cinematic Queerness: Gay and Lesbian Hypervisibility in Contemporary Francophone Feature Films’ is coherently organized around the concept of hypervisibility, explored from a variety of different critical and theoretical perspectives and beyond the Anglophone world. Its originality and importance lie in the conjunction of Quebec and France and in the attention paid simultaneously to close textual analysis, both formal and thematic, and to the specificity of socio-cultural context.» (Carolyn A. Durham, H-France Review 14, 2014)
Table of ContentsContents: Florian Grandena/Cristina Johnston: Introduction – Julianne Pidduck: The Visible and the Sayable: The Moment and Conditions of Hypervisibility – Alain Brassart : Une Visibilité discrète : les lesbiennes dans le cinéma français des années 1990 à nos jours – Laurence Enjolras :
La Répétition : Circulez ! Y’a rien à voir – Denis Bachand : Identité sexuelle dans le cinéma québécois. Les voies croisées du désir dans
À corps perdu – Lucille Cairns:
Mères manquantes and Queer Triangulations:
Emporte-moi and
Lost and Delirious – Julie Vaillancourt :
La Femme de l’hôtel et
Anne Trister : silences éloquents, désirs saphiques et revendication d’un nouvel espace – Bénédicte Coste :
Crustacés et coquillages : logique et éthique de l’identité post gaie – Florian Grandena: Things Unsaid and Stolen Images of Desire: Languages in
Ma Vraie Vie à Rouen – James N. Agar: Developing Gay Con/texts in Early Gaël Morel – Renaud Lagabrielle :
Presque rien ? Homosexualité masculine et adolescence dans les fictions cinématographiques françaises contemporaines – Gilad Padva: Undressed Masculinities and Disrupted Sexualities in
Une Robe d’été – Evelyne Szaryk : « Vous voulez jouer à un jeu ? » : désir et manipulation dans
Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes – Dominique D. Fisher : Invisibilités et mises en scènes de l’homophobie : variations françaises et québécoises, ou du
Placard à
C.R.A.Z.Y. – David A. Powell: C.R.A.Z.Y. Québec: Vallée’s Performance of Masculinity and Sovereignty – Brigitte Rollet: Queer or Not Queer Others: Gender Trouble and Postcolonial French Cinema – Jean-Pierre Simard : Hypervisibilité et réception des représentations queer dans
Chouchou et
Wild Side : travestissement, transgenre et transexualité.
