This academic study examines how lesbian representation in cinema has evolved in the twenty-first century, moving beyond decades of near-invisibility broken only by depictions of pathology and despair. The emergence of lesbian characters on screen has occurred alongside queer theory’s challenge to fixed sexual identity categories, creating a curious gap in critical analysis of these representational shifts. The book investigates how cinema visually articulates desire while questioning whether increased visibility through explicit sexual content actually serves lesbian representation. Through a feminist lens, it explores how lesbianism itself queers conventional notions of visibility and legibility. Rather than celebrating a simple trajectory of improved representation, the work analyzes contemporary films through theoretical frameworks that complicate how we understand and categorize lesbian identity on screen. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and spatial-temporal concepts, it argues for using ‘queer’ and ‘lesbian’ as complementary rather than interchangeable descriptors of cinematic sexuality.
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| ISBN: 9781474435390 |
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| Genre: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences; Arts & Photography; Film and Television |
| Subject(s): Arts & Photography; Criticism & Theory; Feminist Theory; History & Criticism; Humor & Entertainment; LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies; Literature & Fiction; Movies; New, Used & Rental Textbooks; Performing Arts; Politics & Social Sciences; Reference; Social Sciences; Specialty Boutique; Theory; Video; Women’s Studies |
| Publication Date: 2020-11-10 |
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| Publisher: Edinburgh University Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 208 |
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| Book_ID: 105480 |