Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory

Clara Bradbury-Rance

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A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identity

The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory’s radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual form. By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation.

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Preface

Table of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Looking after Lesbian Cinema

1. The Woman (Doubled): Mulholland Drive and the Figure of the Lesbian

2. Merely Queer: Translating Desire in Nathalie… and Chloe

3. Anywhere in the World: Circumstance, Space and the Desire for Outness

4. In-Between Touch: Queer Potential in Water Lilies and She Monkeys

5. The Politics of the Image: Sex as Sexuality in Blue is the Warmest Colour

6. Looking at Carol: The Drift of New Queer Pleasures

Conclusion: The Queerness of Lesbian Cinema

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Clara Bradbury-Rance is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at King’s College London.

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