Performing Place in French and Italian Queer Documentary Film

Space and Proust's Lieu Factice
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-96700-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 249 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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. The practice of queer documentary in France and Italy, from the beginning of the new millennium onwards, is seen to re-write the coherence of ‘place’ through a range of emerging queer realities. Proposing the post-queer as a way of contending with the spatial dynamics of these contexts, analysis of key texts positions place as mourned, conceded and intersectional. The performance of place as agency is considered through the notional film, the radical archive of documentary, the enactment of politics, queer indeterminacy and a phenomenology of the object, the frame and queer mobility. The central themes of family, gender, dis/location, in/visibility and re/presentation question blind investment in the integrity of being emplaced.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brett, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Dokumentarfilme
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.