Clara Bradbury-Rance

Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781474435390
• ISBN-10: 1474435394
• Artikelnr.: 59415138

Autorenporträt

Clara Bradbury-Rance is Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Digital Education at King's College London. Her research interests largely focus on the intersectional study of sexuality and gender in film and popular culture, with an increasing focus on new media and politics. She teaches on queer and feminist theory, popular culture and digital culture. Clara has published several book chapters and articles, and presented in academic and non-academic settings, on queer and lesbian cinema, postfeminism and adolescence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Table of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Looking after Lesbian Cinema
1: The Woman (Doubled): Mulholland Drive and the Figure of the Lesbian
2: Merely Queer: Translating Desire in Nathalie... and Chloe
3: Anywhere in the World: Circumstance, Space and the Desire for Outness
4: In-Between Touch: Queer Potential in Water Lilies and She Monkeys
5: The Politics of the Image: Sex as Sexuality in Blue is the Warmest Colour
6: Looking at Carol: The Drift of New Queer Pleasures
Conclusion: The Queerness of Lesbian Cinema
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography