{"product_id":"queer-enchantments-gender-sexuality-and-class-in-the-fairy-tale-cinema-of-jacques-demy-paperback","title":"Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne E. Duggan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author Anne E. Duggan examines Jacques Demy's queer sensibility in connection with another understudied characteristic of his oeuvre: his recurrent use of the fairy tale. In \u003cem\u003eQueer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy, \u003c\/em\u003eDuggan demonstrates that Demy uses fairy-tale devices to explore and expand the identity categories of his characters, while he broadens the possibilities of the genre of the fairy tale through his cinematic revisions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In each chapter, Duggan examines how Demy strategically unfolds, challenges, and teases out the subversive qualities of fairy-tale paradigms. In chapter 1, Duggan reads Demy's \u003cem\u003eLola\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg\u003c\/em\u003e through the lens of \"Cinderella\" and \"Sleeping Beauty,\" while in chapter 2, she explores Demy's revision of Charles Perrault's \"Donkey Skin\" from the particular angle of gay aesthetics. In chapter 3, Duggan situates Demy's rendition of \u003cem\u003eThe Pied Piper\u003c\/em\u003e in relation to a specifically Franco-American tradition of the legend, which thus far has not received critical attention. Finally, in Chapter 4, she examines the ways in which Demy's \u003cem\u003eLady Oscar\u003c\/em\u003e represents the undoing of the figure of the maiden warrior. An epilogue reads Demy's fairy-tale cinema as exemplary of the postmodern tale.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Duggan shows that Demy's cinema heightens the inherent tensions and troubles that were already present in fairy-tale texts and uses them to illustrate both the constraints and utopian possibilities of the fairy tale. Both film and fairy-tale studies scholars will enjoy Duggan's fresh look at the distinctive cinema of Jacques Demy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne E. Duggan is associate professor of French and director of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program at Wayne State University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eSalonni?res, Fairies, and Furies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France\u003c\/i\u003e and associate editor of \u003ci\u003eMarvels \u0026amp; Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130544459911,"sku":"9780814335093","price":57.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b66394ef8ea6e07462273adce279c0ae.webp?v=1732611749","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/queer-enchantments-gender-sexuality-and-class-in-the-fairy-tale-cinema-of-jacques-demy-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}