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By Robin Griffiths

This landmark assortment attracts jointly a few obtainable and insightful essays that discover, for the 1st time, a thrilling new sector of educational research and debate. via case reviews of key motion pictures and filmmakers, the members to this quantity resituate discussions of queer illustration and hope inside of a uniquely varied and divergent ecu context. and lift many provocative questions on understandings of gender, sexuality and identification in movie that spill throughout a number of nationwide borders, cultures and traditions. Topics comprise: - queer nationality and the movies of François Ozon, Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau – the sexual politics of post-communist Prague - depictions of the ‘Gay Bar’ in such motion pictures as popping out, attractive factor and Les Nuits Fauves - queer functionality and spectatorship in Lola und Bilidikid and Hamam - the Swedish ‘Drag King’ scene - Monika Treut and queer German cinema - the subversive poetics of Bavo Defurne and Matthias Müller - Dirk Bogarde and overseas queer stardom. 'Queer Cinema in Europe' demonstrates the very important but under-valued function that ecu filmmakers have performed in expecting notions of queer subjectivity within the new millennium.

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