Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Duggan, Anne E., 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Series:	Series in fairy-tale studies.
Subjects:	Demy, Jacques > Criticism and interpretation. Fairy tales in motion pictures. Sex role in motion pictures. Social classes in motion pictures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: queer enchantments
Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg
The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale
Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper
The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior
Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales
Filmography of Jacques Demy.