French and Spanish Queer Film

Audiences, Communities and Cultural Exchange

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by Chris Perriam and Darren Waldron

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Europe
Keywords: France, Spain, queer
Publishing date: 2016
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 216 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7486-9919-3

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Book Presentation:
Examines how LGBT filmmaking in France and Spain moves across borders and finds new audiences

Advancing the current state of film audience research and of our knowledge of sexuality in transnational contexts, French and Spanish Queer Film analyses how French LGBTQ films are seen in Spain and Spanish ones in France. Studying films from various genres, the book examines their reception across four languages (Spanish, French, Catalan, English) and engages with participants across a range of digital and physical audience locations.

With a particular focus on LGBTQ festivals and on issues relating to LGBTQ experience in both countries, Perriam and Waldron consider issues such as ageing, sense of community and isolation, and the representation of issues affecting trans people. Examining films that chronicle the local (in portraying national and sub-national identities) while also addressing foreign audiences, the book draws on a wide sample of individual responses through post-screening questionnaires and focus groups, as well as drawing on the work of professional film critics and on-line commentators.
Key Features
• The first internationally comparative and crosscutting study of LGBTQ film, with audience research at its core
• Examines LGBTQ festivals in France and Spain
• Looks at the cross-border impact of the auteur and big-name directors
• Extensively covers independent and documentary film production as well as commercially-pitched feature films

About the authors:
Chris Perriam has worked as Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Manchester since 2004. He researches and teaches in the areas of Spanish Cultural Studies and Screen Studies and has a special interest in queer culture in Spain, France and Britain. Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French at The School of Arts, Languages and Culture, The University of Manchester. He is the author of Queering Contemporary French Popular Cinema: images and their reception (Peter Lang 2009)

Press Reviews:
This book carves out a vital space at the intersection of contemporary LGBTQ and Transnational film studies. It is equally important as a document of the translatability and border-crossing qualities essential to European cultures. Perriam and Waldron demonstrate brilliantly how tastes, values, desires and fantasies are mobilized through films for different LGBTQ audiences, but this is not all. Their intervention is critical because it comes at a time when the very idea of Europe is in jeopardy, and they subtly remind us that the study of film festivals and audiences can throw light on what is shared and what desires and values produced in one linguistic area can mean for another.– Nuria Triana Toribio, University of Kent

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