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Flamboyant fictions : the failed art of passing /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleishman, Ian Thomas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2025.
Subjects:
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Passing (Identity) in motion pictures.
Gay men in literature.
Gay men in motion pictures.
Gay men > Identity.
Motion pictures > 20th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > 21st century > History and criticism.
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Agency as Failed Passing
  • Part 1. Counterfeit Identities
  • Chapter 1. Counterfeit Narratives: André Gide's Queer Coinages
  • Chapter 2. Counterfeit Sexualities: Performativity in Jean Genet
  • Part 2. Embodied Abstraction
  • Chapter 3. Camp/Abject: Queer Failure in Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Chapter 4. The Wound in Bloom: Werner Schroeter's Gay Stigmata
  • Part 3. Token Subversion
  • Chapter 5. New Camp Extremity: Adaptation and Experimentation in François Ozon
  • Chapter 6. Not Nothing: Xavier Dolan's Vanishing Gay Aesthetic
  • Coda. Flamboyant Failures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index