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The Desiring-Image - Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,459
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The Desiring-Image - Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema (Hardcover): Nick Davis

The Desiring-Image - Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema (Hardcover)

Nick Davis

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The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid within any individual's experience, and as forces that can therefore unite unlikely groups of people along new lines, socially, sexually, or politically. The films driving this analysis range from celebrated fixtures of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s (including Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman and Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine) to sexually provocative films of the same era that are rarely classified as queer (David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch) to breakout films by 21st-century directors (Rodney Evans's Brother to Brother, John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus). To frame these readings and to avoid heterosexist assumptions in other forms of film analysis, The Desiring-Image revisits the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose two major works on cinema somehow never address the radical ideas about desire he expresses in other texts. This book brings those notions together in innovative ways, making them clear and accessible to newcomers and field specialists alike, with clear, illustrated examples drawn from a wide range of movies extending beyond the central case studies. Thus, The Desiring-Image speaks to readers interested in queer and gay/lesbian studies, in film theory, in feminist and sexuality scholarship, and in theory and philosophy, putting those discourses into rich, surprising conversations with popular cinema of the last 30 years.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2013
First published: June 2013
Authors: Nick Davis (Assistant Professor of English)
Dimensions: 239 x 161 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-999315-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General
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LSN: 0-19-999315-7
Barcode: 9780199993154

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