List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Contesting Borders: Mapping a European Queer Cinema
Robin Griffiths
Part One: Queer Identities
Chapter 1: Queering the Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom
Michelle Chilcoat
Chapter 2: Representing Gay Male Domesticity in French Film of the Late 1990s
Todd W. Reeser
Chapter 3: The Films of Ducastel and Matineau: Gay Identity, the Family, and the Autobiographical Self
Christopher Pullen
Part Two: Queer Aesthetics
Chapter 4: The Body Picturesque: The Films of Bravo Defurne
Michael Williams
Chapter 5: The Mechanical Reproduction of Melodrama: Matthias Müller’s ‘Home’ Movies
Robert L. Cagle
Chapter 6: The Animated Queer
Aylish Wood
Part Three: Queer Spaces
Chapter 7: Bars to Understanding?: Depictions of the ‘Gay Bar’ in Film with Specific References to Coming Out, Les nuits fauves, and Beautiful Thing
Steve Wharton
Chapter 8: Queer as Turk: A Journey to Three Queer Melodramas
Baris Kiliçbay
Chapter 9: Bodies without Borders? Queer Cinema and Sexuality after the Fall
Robin Griffiths
Chapter 10: School Is Out: British ‘Coming Out’ Films in the 1990s
Santiago Fouz-Hernández
Part Four: Queer Perfomances
Chapter 11: Trans-Europe Success: Dirk Bogarde’s International Queer Stardom
Glyn Davis
Chapter 12: Subjection and Power in Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s Seduction—The Cruel Woman: An Extension of the Configuration of Power in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Late Oeuvre
Andrea Reimann
Chapter 13: Berlin Is Running: Olympic Memories and Queer Performances
Andrew Webber
Chapter 14: Transgressive Drag Kings, Defying Dildoed Dykes: A Look at Contemporary Swedish Queer Film
Louise Wallenberg