Performing Place in French and Italian Queer Documentary Film: Space and Proust's Lieu Factice

ISBN-13: 9783319967004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 249 str.

Oliver Brett

Opis

This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's `lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a post-postmodern world with a dispersed sense of the real.

Spis treści

1. Contemporary queer cinema in France and Italy: undoing 'place'

2. Framing the 'lieu factice': shifting notions of documentary 'place'

3. Mourning 'place'

4. Forsaking 'place'

5. Intersecting 'place'

6. Conclusion

O autorze

Oliver Brett is affiliated with the University of Leicester, UK, where he was awarded his PhD in 2014. His research work focuses on the cinemas of France and Italy, particularly documentary cinema and the representation of queer realities.