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Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Lucille Cairns
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Description for Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Hardback. A study of lesbian desire in French and Francophone films. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; APFA; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 524.
This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. The corpus is unique in never before having been assembled, and represents a valuable tool not just for researchers but also for university teachers creating courses both on lesbianism in film and on sexuality in French cinema. A fair number of the 89 texts treated are mainstream films which have achieved high critical acclaim and/or high viewing figures: to ... Read more
This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland and Africa. The corpus is unique in never before having been assembled, and represents a valuable tool not just for researchers but also for university teachers creating courses both on lesbianism in film and on sexuality in French cinema. A fair number of the 89 texts treated are mainstream films which have achieved high critical acclaim and/or high viewing figures: to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748621651
SKU
V9780748621651
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About Lucille Cairns
Lucille Cairns is Professor of French, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham.
Reviews for Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema
Cairns provides us not only with a rich and extensive overview of her subject, but also with an apposite starting-point for future fertile debates. As a consequences, this book will be of great value for the fields of French and francophone screen and cultural studies.
Daren Waldron Modern Language Review It forms an invaluable resource for anyone working on ... Read more
Daren Waldron Modern Language Review It forms an invaluable resource for anyone working on ... Read more