1st Edition
Queer European Cinema Queering Cinematic Time and Space
Introduction: Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space Leanne Dawson
1. Passing and Policing: Controlling Compassion, Bodies and Boundaries in Boys Don’t Cry and Unveiled/Fremde Haut Leanne Dawson
2. Concealing, Revealing, and Coming Out: Lesbian Visibility in Dalibor Matanić’s Fine Dead Girls and Dana Budisavljević’s Family Meals Sanja Laćan
3. Loose Cannons Unloaded: Popular Music, Space, and Queer Identities in the Films of Ferzan Özpetek Elena Boschi
4. The Ethics of Shared Embodiment in Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography Ingrid Ryberg
5. Crossing Borders and Queering Identities in French-Language European Road Cinema Michael Gott & Thibaut Schilt
Biography
Dr. Leanne Dawson is a Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Chair of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival. Her research focuses on LGBTQ representation in film, literature, theatre, performance art, and archives. Her publications include Queering German Culture (Camden House, 2017), Queering European Film Festivals (Taylor & Francis, 2017), and The Other: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in European Cinema and Beyond (Taylor & Francis, 2014). She employs her academic research to create, promote and support queer culture beyond the academy: she has worked as a consultant for theatre; curated and introduced film seasons for cinemas; spoken about LGBTQ matters on the BBC; and is making a documentary, Femmes on Film about femme representation and socio-political reality.
