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[Commlist] New publication: Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory

Tue Mar 19 18:47:33 GMT 2019



New book:
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*/Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory/, Edinburgh University Press, 2019/./*

The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory’s radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual form. By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation. Bradbury-Rance resists charting a narrative of representational progress or shoring up the lesbian’s categorisation in the newly available terms of the visible. Instead, she argues for a feminist framework that can understand lesbianism’s queerness. Drawing on a provocative theoretical and visual corpus, Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory reveals the conditions of lesbian legibility in the 21st century.

"Twenty-first century cinema has so far yielded an extraordinarily rich array of works – by directors male and female, queer and straight, arthouse and independent – that feature lesbian figures, desires, and dilemmas. Bradbury-Rance’s book is the definitive study of these films. Showing how cinema stages key dramas of gender, sex, and visibility for the digital age, Bradbury-Rance convincingly restores the lesbian to debates in queer theory.” – Patricia White, Swarthmore College

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*You can purchase the book directly with a 30% discount. *If you’re ordering from Europe, Asia, Africa or Oceania, please visit edinburghuniversitypress.com <http://edinburghuniversitypress.com> and enter the discount code NEW30. If you’re ordering from the Americas, visit oup.com/us <http://oup.com/us> and use the code ADISTA5

I’d be so grateful if you’d pass news of the book on to any colleagues you think might be interested. And, if you are affiliated with a journal and would like to review the book, please do also let me know so I can add it to the distribution list for review copies.
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*I’ll be launching the book with a Queer@King’s event on 26th June – all welcome. You can sign up via eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queerkings-presents-lesbian-cinema-after-queer-theory-tickets-58710846723*
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