New Queer Images

Representations of Homosexualities in Contemporary Francophone Visual Cultures

230 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Since the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of international gay/lesbian-themed visual productions, ranging from pornographic images and television programmes to advertising and graphic novels. Often originating from countries with a multicultural tradition (most notably Great Britain and the United States), this cultural phenomenon has now reached many territories, including the French-speaking world. What are the thematic and aesthetic convergences/divergences of such visual productions? Do such works develop problematics and approaches specific to areas such as metropolitan France or French-speaking Canada? The eleven essays included in this collection (two in English and nine in French) aim to answer these questions by offering in-depth and challenging discussions of various queer-themed visual productions made in a contemporary Francophone context. Each contribution focuses on specific case studies drawn from auteur, pornographic and experimental cinemas, as well as those based on analyses of images from television, printed media and contemporary art.

• Reihe: Modern French Identities
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Filmgenres
• ISBN: 9783034301824
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2011
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
• Band herausgegeben von: Florian Grandena, Cristina Johnston