New Queer Images

Since the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of international gay/lesbian-themed visual productions, ranging from pornographic images and television programmes to advertising and graphic novels. Often originating from countries with a multicultural tradition (most notably Great Britain and the United States), this cultural phenomenon has now reached many territories, including the French-speaking world.
What are the thematic and aesthetic convergences/divergences of such visual productions? Do such works develop problematics and approaches specific to areas such as metropolitan France or French-speaking Canada? The eleven essays included in this collection (two in English and nine in French) aim to answer these questions by offering in-depth and challenging discussions of various queer-themed visual productions made in a contemporary Francophone context. Each contribution focuses on specific case studies drawn from auteur , pornographic and experimental cinemas, as well as those based on analyses of images from television, printed media and contemporary art.

Contents: Florian Grandena/Cristina Johnston: Introduction - Maxime Cervulle : Le Sexe de la " racaille " : pornographie ethnique et volonté de sa/voir - Candice Nicolas : Une Affaire de goût : palimpseste orphique et hypervisibilisation homosensuelle - Yekhan Pinarligil : Ixe : l'anormalisation des normes - Matthieu Sabourin: Fixing the Fluid: Coagulating Masculinities and Homo/Hetero Struggles for Visibility in Contemporary French Visual Arts - Jean-Baptiste Chantoiseau : L'Homosexualité à saturation ? L'expérience identitaire et esthétique de la série Courts mais gay (2001-2007) - Fabien Rose : Un Secret sous surveillance : gender passing et (sa)voir dans l'émission de téléréalité Secret Story I - Martine Gross : Visibilités homoparentales - Nelly Quemener : Humour et homosexualités : vers une queerisation de l'espace public - Mathilde Brissonnet : " Pas un putain de témoignage de merde " : au-delà de l'hypervisibilité d'un homosexuel dans son journal - Luc Dupont : Sur la représentation de la communauté gaie dans la publicité du magazine Têtu - Bharain Mac an Bhreithiún: Graphic Design and the Construction of Gay Masculinities in Kaiserin and Têtu.