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