Queer Cinema in Europe

Description

Queer cinema has gained scholarly attention in recent years as a manifestation of the conflicts, anxieties, and liberation of European sexuality. Robin Griffiths’ Queer Cinema in Europe, the first anthology of its kind, probes the questions and implications of sex, gender, and identity in contemporary European filmmaking. An esteemed group of contributors discuss the varieties of lesbian and gay representation to deconstruct and redefine notions of national identity and culture in a diverse European context. This volume explores a wide scope of films, directors, and genres to forge a new understanding of what it means to be queer in the twenty-first century. 

 

 

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Película fotográfica
• General officer
• History of film
• General
• Cultural Studies
• Drama
• Film

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781841502519
• Langue: English

Extrait

Queer Cinema in Europe
Queer Cinema in Europe
Robin Griffiths
First Published in the UK in 2008 by Intellect Books, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2008 by Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2008 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons Copy Editor: Holly Spradling Typesetting: Mac Style, Beverley, E. Yorkshire
ISBN 978-1-84150-079-9/EISBN 978-1-84150-251-9
Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press, Malta.
C ONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Contesting Borders: Mapping a European Queer Cinema
Robin Griffiths
Part One: Queer Identities
Chapter 1: Queering the Family in Fran ois Ozon s Sitcom
Michelle Chilcoat
Chapter 2: Representing Gay Male Domesticity in French Film of the Late 1990s
Todd W. Reeser
Chapter 3: The Films of Ducastel and Martineau: Gay Identity, the Family, and the Autobiographical Self
Christopher Pullen
Part Two: Queer Aesthetics
Chapter 4: The Body Picturesque: The Films of Bavo Defurne
Michael Williams
Chapter 5: The Mechanical Reproduction of Melodrama: Matthias M ller s Home Movies
Robert L. Cagle
Chapter 6: The Animated Queer
Aylish Wood
Part Three: Queer Spaces
Chapter 7: Bars to Understanding?: Depictions of the Gay Bar in Film with Specific Reference to Coming Out, Les nuits fauves , and Beautiful Thing
Steve Wharton
Chapter 8: Queer as Turk: A Journey to Three Queer Melodramas
Baris Kili bay
Chapter 9: Bodies without Borders? Queer Cinema and Sexuality after the Fall
Robin Griffiths
Chapter 10: School Is Out: British Coming Out Films in the 1990s
Santiago Fouz-Hern ndez
Part Four: Queer Performances
Chapter 11: Trans-Europe Success: Dirk Bogarde s International Queer Stardom
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
Andrea Reimann
Chapter 13: Berlin Is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances
Andrew Webber
Chapter 14: Transgressive Drag Kings, Defying Dildoed Dykes: A Look at Contemporary Swedish Queer Film
Louise Wallenberg
L IST OF I LLUSTRATIONS
1. The cast of Fran ois Ozon s Sitcom (1998)
2. Sa d (Salim Kechiouche) and Alice (Natacha R gnier) in Les Amants criminels/Criminal Lovers (1999)
3. C dric (St phane Rideau) and Mathieu (J r mie Elka m) in S bastien Lifshitz s Presque Rien/Come Undone (2000)
4. Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
5. On the set of Dr le de F lix/Adventures of Felix (1999)
6. Etienne (Jimmy Tavares) and Ludo (Lucas Bonnifait) in Ma Vraie Vie Rouen/My Life on Ice (2001)
7. Bavo Defurne s Kampvuur/Campfire (2000)
8. Olaf Nollen as Sebastian in Saint (1996)
9. Matthias M ller s Continental Breakfast (1985)
10. Lana Turner in Home Stories (1990)
11. Barry Purves Achilles (1995)
12. Achilles and lover Patroclus
13. Matthias Freihof in Heiner Carow s Coming Out (1989)
14. Jean (Cyril Collard) and Laura (Romane Bohringer) in Cyril Collard s Les Nuits fauves/Savage Nights (1992)
15. Ferzan Ozpetek s Hamam/The Turkish Bath (1997)
16. Wiktor Grodecki s Not Angels But Angels/And l nejsou and l (1994)
17. Miroslav slavka as Marek in Mandragora (1997)
18. Ste (Scott Neal) and Jamie (Glen Berry) in Hettie MacDonald s Beautiful Thing (1996)
19. Ben Silverstone and Brad Gorton in Simon Shore s Get Real (1999)
20. The enigmatic Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) in Luchino Visconti s Death in Venice (1971)
21. Von Aschenbach and Tadzio (Bj rn Andresen)
22. Mechthild Grossmann as self-declared tyrant Wanda in Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch s Seduction: The Cruel Woman (1985)
23. Lola (Gandi Mukli) and Bili (Erdal Yildiz) in Kutlug Ataman s Lola und Bilidikid (1999)
24. Baki Davrak as Murat
25. Mason in Mia Engberg s Manhood (1999)
26. sa Ekman and Ingrid Ryberg s DragKingdom of Sweden (2002)
A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First and foremost, I would like to begin by thanking my contributors and everyone at Intellect for their immense enthusiasm, patience and support throughout the lengthy editing process, in particular Robin Beecroft and May Yao.
Very special thanks also go to Bavo Defurne, Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, Matthias M ller and Monika Treut for kindly supplying and granting me permission to use stills from their films. Likewise, I am also extremely grateful to Raj Rai and Millivres Multimedia, Peter Missotten and Filmfabriek, and Nina Harding at the BFI Stills Collection for all their help.
Every effort has been made to obtain permission to reproduce copyright material in this volume. If any oversight has been made in the publication of this book, I apologize in advance, and welcome copyright holders to inform me of any unintentional errors and/or omissions.
Finally, I would also like to acknowledge the invaluable support of the Faculty of Media, Art and Communications at the University of Gloucestershire, for granting me research leave in order to complete this project.
N OTES ON C ONTRIBUTORS
Robert L. Cagle is an Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and writes about film and popular culture. His essays have appeared in such journals as Cinema Journal, The Velvet Light Trap, Afterimage , and in the anthology Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women s Cinema (University of Toronto Press, 1999). His current projects address the subjects of underground movies and cinephilia.
Michelle Chilcoat is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Union College, Schenectady, New York. She has published on representations of sexuality and race in French film; notions of brain sex from the French Enlightenment to the present; and constructions of citizenship throughout France s colonial empire.
Glyn Davis is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Queer as Folk (BFI, 2007) and co-editor, with Kay Dickinson, of Teen TV: Genre, Consumption, Identity (BFI, 2004).
Santiago Fouz-Hern ndez lectures in Spanish cinema at Durham University and is the author of various articles on issues of masculinity, sexuality and the body in contemporary Spanish and British cinema. He is the co-author of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2007), editor of Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (I. B. Tauris, 2009) and co-editor of Madonna s Drowned Worlds: New Approaches to Her Cultural Transformations 1983-2003 (Ashgate, 2004). He is reviews editor of Studies in Hispanic Cinemas and guest editor of the special issue on the male body (3.3).
Robin Griffiths is Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of Cinema and Sexuality (Open University Press, forthcoming) and editor of British Queer Cinema (Routledge, 2006).
Bar s K l bay is a scholar based at Gazi University, Ankara. His current research focuses on transnational cinema (Turkish-German cinema in particular), postmemory and melancholy as national identification, Turkish cinema with an emphasis on gender and reality television. He is currently working on a co-authored book on Turkish-German cinema.
Christopher Pullen is Lecturer in Media, Gender and Performance at Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University. He has published articles on gay identity and reality television. His specific research interest relates to the progression of homosexual social identity in television and film.
Andrea Reimann is a visiting Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami. She has taught German language and culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Urbana-Champaign and English and German language, literature and film in various Swiss high schools and at Eidgen ssische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Z rich. Her current interests include film authorship, nationality and canon formation; and comparative, transnational and transgenerational approaches to queer and (im)migrant film.
Todd W. Reeser is Associate Professor of French at the University of Pittsburg. He has published on issues of gender and sexuality in the sixteenth- and twentieth-century French context. He recently co-edited a volume of Esprit Cr ateur on the topic of French Masculinities , and he has completed a book on moderate masculinity in the Renaissance. His second book project examines the transmission of Platonic (homo)sexuality in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Louise Wallenberg is Director of the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. She has published several articles on queer and feminist film and theory and is currently rewriting her Ph.D. thesis, Upsetting the Male , into a book.
Andrew Webber is Reader in Modern German and Comparative Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College. He has published widely on German and comparative literature and film. He is currently completing a book on the cultural history of the European avant-garde and embarking on a project to write a cultural topography of twentieth-century Berlin.
Steve Wharton is Senior Lecturer in French and Communication in the Department of European Studies and Modern Languages at the University of Bath. His research interests include comparative perspectives on gay and lesbian activism in Britain and France, and perceptions and portrayals of homosexuality in the media. In addition to publications in t