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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463542803321

Autore

Duggan Anne E. <1967->

Titolo

Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / / Anne E. Duggan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8143-3854-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Series in fairy-tale studies

Disciplina

791.43/6559

Soggetti

Fairy tales in motion pictures

Sex role in motion pictures

Social classes in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.