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ISBN | 9781474435369 |
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Autor | Bradbury-Rance Clara |
Editura | Edinburgh Univ Pr |
Tip copertă | Pevná vazba |
Anul publicării | 2019 |
Număr de pagini | 240 |
Headline: A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identity
Blurb: Lesbianism has received unprecedented screen time in the first decades of the twenty-first century, departing from a prior invisibility which historically was interrupted only by invocations of pathologisation, isolation and tragedy. The lesbian's delayed and uneasy path towards visibility has coincided with queer theory's disruption of sexual identity categories, resulting in a comparable invisibility in the critical discourse that might have accounted for such significant representational transformations. In this paradoxical context, Troubling Visibility: The Queerness of Lesbian Cinema theorises the kinds of cinematic language through which desire can be given visual form. Scrutinising the conflations and obscurations induced by legitimacy when sexuality is made visible through sex, the book proposes a feminist framework for understanding the queerness of lesbianism that unsettles the "visibility imperative". Rather than charting a narrative of representational progress, shoring up the lesbian's categorisation in the newly available terms of the visible, the book reads contemporary cinema through the theories of sexuality that problematise lesbian legibility itself.
Key Features:
Keywords: queer theory
feminist film theory
lesbian sexuality
film and gender
film and affect
identity politics
Subject: Film Studies