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BL
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1014236
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b768606
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| Main Entry
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Cairns, Lucille,1963-
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| Title & Author
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Sapphism on screen : : lesbian desire in French and Francophone cinema /\ Lucille Cairns.
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| Publication Statement
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0748626638
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: 1280833890
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: 9780748626632
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: 9781280833892
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0748621652
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9780748621651
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Filmography: pages 198-209.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214) and index.
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| Contents
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Lesbian desire in film: coming to terms -- Bad girls: criminality -- Mad girls: pathology -- Girls on the edge: liminality -- Girls on top: sapphology -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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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 cite just a few examples, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai des orf÷vres (1947), Louis Malle's Milou en mai (1989), Claude Chabrol's La CÃ♭rÃ♭monie (1995), AndrÃ♭ TÃ♭chinÃ♭'s Les Voleurs (1995), and FranÃʹois Ozon's Huit femmes (2001). As such, they have contributed to hegemonic constructions of and debate on (female) homosexuality, in a century wherein sexed/ gendered identity, including sexual orientation, has become a preeminent factor in the constitution of subjectivity. While such constructions and debate have a French-language specificity, and have been produced in distinct socio-political and cultural contexts, this study also engages in analytical comparisons with relevant anglophone films and their own distinct discursive contexts.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Lesbianism in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- France.
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- French-speaking countries.
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Motion pictures-- France.
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Motion pictures-- French-speaking countries.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Lesbianism in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- History Criticism.
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PERFORMING ARTS-- Film Video-- Reference.
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Filmkunst.
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Films.
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Lesbische liefde.
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France.
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French-speaking countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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791.436530944
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.H55C35 2006eb
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