Queer cinema in Europe (Intellect Books, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction: contesting borders: mapping a European queer cinema / Robin Griffiths -- Queering the family in Francois Ozon's Sitcom / Michelle Chilcoat -- Representing gay male domesticity in French film of the late 1990s / Todd W. Reeser -- The films of Ducastel and Martineau: gay identity, the family, and the autobiographical self / Christopher Pullen -- The body picturesque: the films of Bavo Defurne / Michael Williams -- The mechanical reproduction of melodrama: Matthias Muller's 'home' movies / Robert L. Cagle -- The animated queer / Aylish Wood -- Bars to understanding? Depictions of the 'gay bar' in film with specific reference to Coming out, Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful thing / Steve Wharton -- Queer as Turk: a journey to three queer melodramas / Baris Kilicbay -- Bodies without borders? Queer cinema and sexuality after the fall / Robin Griffiths -- School is out: British 'coming out' films in the 1990s / Santiago Fouz-Hernandez -- Trans-Europe success: Dirk Bogarde's international queer stardom / Glyn Davis -- 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 / Andrea Webber -- Berlin is running: Olympic memories and queer performances / Andrew Webber -- Transgressive drag kings, defying dildoed dykes: a look at contemporary Swedish queer film / Louise Wallenberg
This 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 Fr