TY - GEN T1 - Sapphism on screen : lesbian desire in French and Francophone cinema A1 - Cairns, Lucille, 1963- LA - English PP - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn150890043 AB - 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. OP - 223 CN - PN1995.9.H55 C35 2006eb SN - 9780748626632 SN - 0748626638 SN - 1280833890 SN - 9781280833892 SN - 0748621652 SN - 9780748621651 KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures. KW - Lesbianism in motion pictures. KW - Motion pictures : France. KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects : France. KW - Motion pictures : French-speaking countries. KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects : French-speaking countries. KW - Homosexualité au cinéma. KW - Lesbianisme au cinéma. KW - Cinéma : France. KW - Cinéma : Aspect social : France. KW - Cinéma : Aspect social : Francophonie. KW - Cinéma : Francophonie. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism. KW - Homosexuality in motion pictures KW - Lesbianism in motion pictures KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures : Social aspects KW - France KW - French-speaking countries KW - Filmkunst. KW - Films. KW - Lesbische liefde. ER -