Daughters of Desire Lesbian Representation in Film

This book explores lesbians in film from early representation to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such as Queen Christina, The Killing of Sister George, Rebecca, Desperately Seeking Susan and The Color Purple. She details their narratives in conjunction with an examination of different spectating positions and new syntheses of filmic languages.
Deploying lesbian history, black subjectivity, feminist film criticism and material from psychoanalysis, Daughters of Desire explores narrative, desire and identifications. From castration and agency to the fetishization of beauty, from mothering, narcissism, and Oedipus to rage and trauma, Kabir crosses frontiers in film studies and feminist theory.

Acknowledgements
Filmography
Introduction: Desire, Dyke-Icons, Mothers and Others Matter
Part I – Desire
1. Lesbian Desire on the Screen: The Mother as Other: The Hunger
2. The Castration of Lesbian Desire in Cinema: A Matter of Some Agency: Sister George Not at Her Personal Best
3. European Lesbians in Film: Reformulating the Fetishization of Beauty: November Moon Falls At First Sight
4. Lesbian Desire for Bedding Lesbians in Cinema: Plural Positionalities: Claire of the Moon Wants to Go Fish … When Night is Falling
Part II – Subtext
5. Lesbian Representations from Text to Screen: Reworking the Received: The Colour Purple and Fried Green Tomatoes
6. Lesbians Come Out on Celluloid: Rage and Trauma as Subtext: Lianna on Thin Ice Listens to Nocturne
7. Early Cinema Lesbians in and out of the Closet: The Subtext Speaks the Unspeakable: Rebecca Seeks Queen Christina with Several Maidens in Uniform
8. Lesbian Spectating on Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse: Desperately Seeking Susan at the Baghdad Café Looking for Salmonberries and Fire
9. The Lesbian Subtext in Cinema: Resistant Readings: Thelma And Louise
Bibliography
Index

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