{"product_id":"queer-cinema-in-contemporary-france-five-directors-9781526141064","title":"Queer Cinema in Contemporary France: Five","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacques 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, \u003ci\u003eQueer cinema in contemporary France\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ebeur\u003c\/i\u003e or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: queer productions\u003cbr\u003e1 Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau: moving normative structures\u003cbr\u003e2 Alain Guiraudie: queering space, age, relationality \u003cbr\u003e3 Sébastien Lifshitz: documenting movements in time and space \u003cbr\u003e4 Céline Sciamma: the look of queer representation\u003cbr\u003eFilmographies\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041002914135,"sku":"9781526141064","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526141064.jpg?v=1750948564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/queer-cinema-in-contemporary-france-five-directors-9781526141064","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}