Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy Contributor(s): Duggan, Anne E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814335098 ISBN-13: 9780814335093 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $31.67 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: 791.436 |
LCCN: 2013011385 |
Series: Fairy-Tale Studies |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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, author Anne E. Duggan examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy tale. In Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy, Duggan 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. |