Seduction of Space - Cruising French Cinema

"Jules O'Dwyer draws film theory, queer studies, and spatial inquiry into proximity to examine the politics of cruising and the gendering of space through the work of French queer filmmakers. Foregrounding the crucial role that spatiality plays in shaping the parameters of France's visual cultures and political imaginary, The Seduction of Space is both an urgent queer reconceptualization of this tradition and a clarion call for film scholars to tarry with the politics of sexuality in all its messiness"--

List of contents

Contents
Introduction. Paris’s Cinematic Exploits: From Flânerie to Cruising
1. The Seduction of Space in French Queer Film and Theory
2. Coming and Going in Jacques Nolot’s Cinema
3. Quartiers chauds: Loitering, Queer Zones, and Banlieue Aesthetics
4. A Queer Window onto the World? Vincent Dieutre’s Documentary Frames
5. Sex beyond the City: Alain Guiraudie’s Rural Erotics
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Jules O’Dwyer teaches film studies and French at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Hotels and coeditor of the journal world picture.

Product details

• Authors: Jules O'Dwyer, Jules O''dwyer
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.2025
• EAN: 9781517916831
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-1683-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science