The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

by Nick Davis

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines "queer cinema" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid within any individual's experience, and as forces that can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199993165
• ISBN13: 9780199993161
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"