Sapphism on screen : lesbian desire in French and Francophone cinema /

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 befo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cairns, Lucille, 1963-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ©2006.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r27ht
Table of Contents:
  • Lesbian desire in film: coming to terms
  • Bad girls: criminality
  • Mad girls: pathology
  • Girls on the edge: liminality
  • Girls on top: sapphology
  • Conclusion.