Queer Enchantments Gender Sexuality And Class In The Fairytale Cinema Of Jacques DemyAnne E. Duggan

Queer Enchantments Gender Sexuality And Class In The Fairytale Cinema Of Jacques Demy

Name: Queer Enchantments Gender Sexuality And Class In The Fairytale Cinema Of Jacques Demy
ISBN: 9780814335093

Anne E. Duggan · 2013

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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, 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."--Publisher website.