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This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such as Queen Christina , The Killing of Sister George , Rebecca, Desperately Seeking Susan and The Color Purple . She details their narratives in conjunction with an examination of different spectating positions and new syntheses of filmic languages. Deploying lesbian history, black subjectivity, feminist film criticism and material from psychoanalysis, Daughters of Desire explores narrative, desire and identifications. From castration and agency to the fetishization of beauty, from mothering, narcissism, and Oedipus to rage and trauma, Kabir crosses frontiers in film studies and feminist theory.>
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Filmography
Introduction: Desire, Dyke-Icons, Mothers and Others Matter
Part I - Desire
1. Lesbian Desire on the Screen: The Mother as Other:
The Hunger2. The Castration of Lesbian Desire in Cinema: A Matter of Some Agency:
Sister George Not at Her
Personal Best3. European Lesbians in Film: Reformulating the Fetishization of Beauty:
November Moon Falls
At First Sight4. Lesbian Desire for Bedding Lesbians in Cinema: Plural Positionalities:
Claire of the Moon Wants to
Go Fish . When Night is FallingPart II - Subtext
5. Lesbian Representations from Text to Screen: Reworking the Received:
The Color Purple and
Fried Green Tomatoes6. Lesbians Come Out on Celluloid: Rage and Trauma as Subtext:
Lianna on
Thin Ice Listens to
Nocturne7. Early Cinema Lesbians in and out of the Closet: The Subtext Speaks the Unspeakable:
Rebecca Seeks
Queen Christina with Several
Maidens in Uniform8. Lesbian Spectating on Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse:
Desperately Seeking Susan at the
Baghdad Café Looking for
Salmonberries and
Fire9. The Lesbian Subtext in Cinema: Resistant Readings:
Thelma And LouiseBibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Shameem Kabir
