Queer Enchantments : Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy /

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To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, the aut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Duggan, Anne E., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Demy, Jacques.
Demy, Jacques > Criticism and interpretation.
Social classes in motion pictures.
Sex role in motion pictures.
Fairy tales in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Contes de fees au cinema.
Rôle selon le sexe au cinema.
Classes sociales au cinema.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, the author examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy tale. This book demonstrates that Demy uses fairy-tale devices to explore and expand the identity categories of his characters, while he broadens the possibilities of the genre of the fairy tale through his cinematic revisions. -- Adapted from publisher's description.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780814338544

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