The last three decades have witnessed the proliferation of gay/lesbian-themed films both on our screens and at international film festivals. This trend termed 'hypervisibility' by Julianne Pidduck has gone far beyond the boundaries of countries with a multicultural tradition and now reaches many territories, including the French-speaking world. What is the narrative and thematic originality of such films in French-speaking contexts? Do such feature films develop problematics and approaches specific to areas such as metropolitan France or Francophone Canada? The sixteen essays included in this collection (six in English and ten in French) aim to answer to such questions by offering in-depth and challenging discussions of film productions from France and Quebec, ranging from Patrice Chéreau's L'Homme blessé/The Wounded Man (1983) via Josiane Balasko's Gazon maudit (1995) to Jean-Marc Vallée's C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005). Works by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, Sébastien Lifshitz, Gaël Morel, François Ozon and Léa Pool are also examined.

Autorentext

Florian Grandena is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches film studies. He is the author of many articles on French queer cinema and a book on new French political cinema entitled Showing the World to the World: Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and Early 2000s (2008). He is also the initiator of a cycle of conferences on gay/lesbian hypervisibility in contemporary Francophone visual cultures. Cristina Johnston is a Lecturer in French and Visual Cultures in the School of Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling. She has published articles on sexuality in contemporary French cinema, transatlantic cinematic relations and French Republican citizenship in the post-PACS era, and the monograph French Minority Cinema (2010).

Inhalt

Contents: Florian Grandena/Cristina Johnston: Introduction - Julianne Pidduck: The Visible and the Sayable: The Moment and Conditions of Hypervisibility - Alain Brassart : Une Visibilité discrète : les lesbiennes dans le cinéma français des années 1990 à nos jours - Laurence Enjolras : La Répétition : Circulez ! Y'a rien à voir - Denis Bachand : Identité sexuelle dans le cinéma québécois. Les voies croisées du désir dans À corps perdu - Lucille Cairns: Mères manquantes and Queer Triangulations: Emporte-moi and Lost and Delirious - Julie Vaillancourt : La Femme de l'hôtel et Anne Trister : silences éloquents, désirs saphiques et revendication d'un nouvel espace - Bénédicte Coste : Crustacés et coquillages : logique et éthique de l'identité post gaie - Florian Grandena: Things Unsaid and Stolen Images of Desire: Languages in Ma Vraie Vie à Rouen - James N. Agar: Developing Gay Con/texts in Early Gaël Morel - Renaud Lagabrielle : Presque rien ? Homosexualité masculine et adolescence dans les fictions cinématographiques françaises contemporaines - Gilad Padva: Undressed Masculinities and Disrupted Sexualities in Une Robe d'été - Evelyne Szaryk : ' Vous voulez jouer à un jeu ? ' : désir et manipulation dans Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes - Dominique D. Fisher : Invisibilités et mises en scènes de l'homophobie : variations françaises et québécoises, ou du Placard à C.R.A.Z.Y. - David A. Powell: C.R.A.Z.Y. Québec: Vallée's Performance of Masculinity and Sovereignty - Brigitte Rollet: Queer or Not Queer Others: Gender Trouble and Postcolonial French Cinema - Jean-Pierre Simard : Hypervisibilité et réception des représentations queer dans Chouchou et Wild Side : travestissement, transgenre et transexualité.