Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory Bradbury-Rance Clara
Headline: A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identityBlurb: Lesbianism has received unprecedented screen time in the first decades of the twenty-first century, departing from a prior…
Specifikacia Lesbian Cinema After Queer Theory Bradbury-Rance Clara
Headline: A study of spectatorship, desire, identification and identityBlurb: Lesbianism has received unprecedented screen time in the first decades of the twenty-first century, departing from a prior invisibility which historically was interrupted only by invocations of pathologisation, isolation and tragedy. The lesbian's delayed and uneasy path towards visibility has coincided with queer theory's disruption of sexual identity categories, resulting in a comparable invisibility in the critical discourse that might have accounted for such significant representational transformations. In this paradoxical context, Troubling Visibility: The Queerness of Lesbian Cinema theorises the kinds of cinematic language through which desire can be given visual form. Scrutinising the conflations and obscurations induced by legitimacy when sexuality