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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / Anne E. Duggan.

Title
Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / Anne E. Duggan.
Author
Duggan, Anne E., 1967-
Publication
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]

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Description
ix, 195 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author Anne E. Duggan examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy tale. In Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy, Duggan demonstrates that Demy uses fairy-tale devices to explore and expand the identity categories of his characters, while he broadens the possibilities of the genre of the fairy tale through his cinematic revisions."--Publisher website.
Series Statement
Series in fairy-tale studies
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books.
  • Series in fairy-tale studies.
Subject
  • Demy, Jacques > Criticism and interpretation
  • Fairy tales in motion pictures
  • Sex role in motion pictures
  • Social classes in motion pictures
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.
ISBN
  • 9780814335093 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0814335098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780814338544 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013011385
OCLC
  • 828487115
  • SCSB-12863526
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library