214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
214 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this cutting edge volume, Wallace identifies a unique trend in post-Production Code films that deal with lesbian content: stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the formal analysis of five lesbian apartment films, Wallace demonstrates how the standard repertoire of... Read more
1. Introduction: The Lesbian Chronotype; 2. Lesbian Representation and Cinematic Space: The Children’s Hour; 3. The Lesbian Set: The Killing of Sister George; 4. The Lesbian Mise-en-scène: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant; 5. The Lesbian Location: Single White Female; 6. The Lesbian Edit: Bound; 7. The Lesbian Diegesis: Mulholland Dr. 8. Conclusion: The Sexual Life of Apartments
Biography
Lee Wallace is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Auckland. She is the author of Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities (2003).
