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Informationen zum Autor Lee Wallace is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities (2003). Klappentext This book notes that stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the formal analysis of five lesbian apartment films, Wallace demonstrates how the standard repertoire of visual techniques and spatial devices are used to scaffold female sexual visibility. Zusammenfassung This book notes that stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the formal analysis of five lesbian apartment films, Wallace demonstrates how the standard repertoire of visual techniques and spatial devices are used to scaffold female sexual visibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Introduction: The Lesbian Chronotope Chapter 2: Lesbian Representation and Cinematic Space: The Children’s Hour Chapter 3: The Lesbian Set: The Killing of Sister George Chapter 4: The Lesbian Mise-en-scène: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Chapter 5: The Lesbian Location: Single White Female Chapter 6: The Lesbian Edit: Bound Chapter 7: The Lesbian Diegesis: Mulholland Dr. Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Sexual Life of Apartments
