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Book SynopsisThis landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representation and desire within a uniquely diverse and divergent European context. And raise many provocative questions about understandings of gender, sexuality and identity in film that spill across a variety of national borders, cultures and traditions. Topics include: - queer nationality and the films of François Ozon, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau – the sexual politics of post-communist Prague - depictions of the ‘Gay Bar’ in such films as Coming Out, Beautiful Thing and Les Nuits Fauves - queer performance and spectatorship in Lola und Bilidikid and Hamam - the Swedish ‘Drag King’ scene - Monika Treut and queer German cinema - the subversive poetics of Bavo Defurne and Matthias Müller - Dirk Bogarde and international queer stardom. 'Queer Cinema in Europe' demonstrates the vital yet under-valued role that European filmmakers have played in anticipating notions of queer subjectivity in the new millennium.
Trade Review"The book is filled with great articles and analysis of interesting European film scenarios [...]This anthology will come in useful for film scholars who are interested in comparing GLBT representations in European films to queer portrayals in American or non-Western cinema." - Farhana Uddin, The Adirondack Review "A solid, thorough, and valuable examination of this emerging field of cultural study." - The Gay & Lesbian Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Contesting Borders: Mapping a European Queer Cinema' - Page 14 - Robin Griffiths Chapter 1: 'Queering the Family in Francois Ozon's Sitcom' - Page 23 - Michelle Chilcoat Chapter 2: 'Representing Gay Male Domesticity in French Film of the late 1990s' - Page 35 - Todd. W. Reeser Chapter 3: 'The Films of Ducastel and Martineau: Gay Identity, the Family, and the Autobiographical Self' - Page 49 - Christopher Pullen Chapter 4: 'The Body Picturesque: The Films of Bavo Defurne' - Page 65 - Michael Williams Chapter 5: 'The Mechanical Reproduction of Melodrama: Matthias Muller's "Home" Movies' - Page 79 - Robert L. Cagle Chapter 6: 'The Animated Queer' - Page 93 - Aylish Wood Chapter 7: 'Bars to Understanding?: Depictions of the 'Gay Bar' in Film with Specific Reference to coming Out,Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful Thing' - Page 106 - Steve Wharton Chapter 8: 'Queer as Turk: A Journey to Three Queer Melodramas' - Page 117 - Baris Kilicbay Chapter 9: 'Bodies without Borders? Queer Cinema and Sexuality after the Fall' - Page 129 - Robin Griffiths Chapter 10: 'School Is Out: British 'Coming Out' Films in the 1990s' - Page 145 - Santiago Fouz-Hernandez Chapter 11: 'Trans-Europe Success: Dirk Bogarde's International Queer Stardom' - Page 167 - Glyn Davis Chapter 12: 'Subjection and Power in Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch's Seduction - The Cruel Woman: An Extension of the Configuration of Power in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Late Oeuvre' - Page 181 - Andrea Reimann Chapter 13: 'Berlin is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances' - Page 195 - Andrew Webber Chapter 14: 'Transgressive Drag Kings, Defying Dildoed Dykes: A Look at Contemporary Swedish Queer Film' - Page 207 - Louise Wallenberg
