[Commlist] New publication: Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory

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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