The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory's radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual form. 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. Bradbury-Rance resists charting a narrative of representational progress or shoring up the lesbian's categorisation in the newly available terms of the visible. Instead, she argues for a feminist framework that can understand lesbianism's queerness. Drawing on a provocative theoretical and visual corpus, Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory reveals the conditions of lesbian legibility in the twenty-first century.
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Book Details
Title
Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Product Form
Hardcover
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Genre
Performing Arts
ISBN13
9781474435369
Book Category
Arts, Language and Linguistic Books
BISAC Subject Heading
PER004000
Book Subcategory
Art Books
ISBN10
9781474435369
Language
English
Dimensions
Height
234 mm
Length
156 mm
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