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Modern French Identities 97 Modern French Identities
97
Since the early 1980s, there has been a dramatic increase in the number G Florian Grandena and
r
of international gay/lesbian-themed visual productions, ranging from a
n Cristina Johnston (eds)
pornographic images and television programmes to advertising and d
e
graphic novels. Often originating from countries with a multicultural n
a
tradition (most notably Great Britain and the United States), this
a
cultural phenomenon has now reached many territories, including the n
d
French-speaking world.
J
o New Queer Images
h
What are the thematic and aesthetic convergences/divergences of such n
s
visual productions? Do such works develop problematics and approaches t
o
specific to areas such as metropolitan France or French-speaking Canada? n
Representations of Homosexualities
The eleven essays included in this collection (two in English and nine (e
d
in French) aim to answer these questions by offering in-depth and s in Contemporary Francophone
)
challenging discussions of various queer-themed visual productions made
• Visual Cultures
in a contemporary Francophone context. Each contribution focuses on N
e
specific case studies drawn from auteur, pornographic and experimental w
cinemas, as well as those based on analyses of images from television,
Q
printed media and contemporary art. u
e
e
r
I
m
a
Florian Grandena is Assistant Professor in the Department of Commu- g
nication of the University of Ottawa, where he teaches film studies. He e
s
is the author of many articles on French queer cinema and a book on
new French political cinema entitled Showing the World to the World:
Political Fictions in French Cinema of the 1990s and Early 2000s (2008).
He is also the initiator of a cycle of conferences on gay/lesbian hyper-
g
visibility in contemporary Francophone visual cultures.
n
a
Cristina Johnston is a Lecturer in French and Visual Cultures in the L
School of Languages, Cultures and Religions at the University of Stirling.
She has published articles on sexuality in contemporary French cinema, r
e
transatlantic cinematic relations and French Republican citizenship in the
t
post-PACS era, and the monograph French Minority Cinema (2010). e
P
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New Queer Images
Modern French Identities
Edited by Peter Collier
Volume 97
PEtEr Lang
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Florian grandena and
Cristina Johnston (eds)
New Queer Images
representations of Homosexualities
in Contemporary Francophone
Visual Cultures
PEtEr Lang
Oxford l Bern l Berlin l Bruxelles l Frankfurt am Main l new York l Wien
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new queer images : representations of homosexualities in contemporary
francophone visual cultures / Florian grandena and Cristina Johnston
(eds).
p. cm. -- (Modern French identities ; 97)
In English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBn 978-3-0343-0182-4 (alk. paper)
1. Homosexuality and the arts--French-speaking countries. I.
grandena, Florian. II. Johnston, Cristina. III. title: representations
of homosexualities in contemporary francophone visual cultures.
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Florian Grandena and Cristina Johnston
Introduction 1
Part 1 Alternative Images 9
Maxime Cervulle
Le Sexe de la « racaille » : pornographie ethnique et
volonté de sa/voir 11
Candice Nicolas
Une Af faire de goût : palimpseste orphique et
hypervisibilisation homosensuelle 31
Yekhan Pinarligil
Ixe: l’anormalisation des normes 47
Matthieu Sabourin
Fixing the Fluid: Coagulating Masculinities and Homo/Hetero
Struggles for Visibility in Contemporary French Visual Arts 65
Part 2 Small Screens and Stage Performance 85
vi
Jean-Baptiste Chantoiseau
L’Homosexualité à saturation ? L’expérience identitaire et
esthétique de la série Courts mais gay (2001–2007) 87
Fabien Rose
Un Secret sous surveillance: gender passing et (sa)voir
dans l’émission de téléréalité Secret Story I 101
Martine Gross
Visibilités homoparentales 117
Nelly Quemener
Humour et homosexualités : vers une queerisation de l’espace public 139
Part 3 Printed Images 159
Mathilde Brissonnet
« Pas un putain de témoignage de merde » :
au-delà de l’hypervisibilité d’un homosexuel dans son journal 161
Luc Dupont
Sur la représentation de la communauté gaie dans la publicité
du magazine Têtu 177
Bharain Mac an Bhreithiún
Graphic Design and the Construction of Gay Masculinities
in Kaiserin and Têtu 195
Notes on Contributors 213
Index 217
Illustrations
Figure 1. Elia Eliev. 2006. CC.E. V (pink) – Disposable After Use, scanned chewing
gum, 4" × 8" digital print. © Elia Eliev (artwork and photo). Reprinted
with permission.
Figure 2. Mathurin Stokh. 2007. Chocolate Salary, chocolate bar cast in coagulated
human semen, 1¼" × 1¼" × ¼". © Mathurin Stokh (artwork and photos).
Reprinted with permission.
Figure 3. Mathurin Stokh. 2007. Chocolate Salary (detail, both sides shown), choco-
late dollar cast in coagulated human semen, 1¼" × 1¼" × ¼". © Mathurin
Stokh (artwork and photos). Reprinted with permission.
Figure 4. Journal (3), Fabrice Neaud. Loïc Néhou of the publishing house x comme
égo. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 5. Journal (3), Fabrice Neaud. Loïc Néhou of the publishing house x comme
égo. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 6. Journal (4), Fabrice Neaud. Loïc Néhou of the publishing house x comme
égo. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 7. Journal, Fabrice Neaud. Loïc Néhou of the publishing house x comme égo.
Reprinted with permission.
Figure 8. Journal, Fabrice Neaud. Loïc Néhou of the publishing house x comme égo.
Reprinted with permission.
Figure 9. Boycam.fr.
Figure 10. David Seidner, Untitled, 1993. © International Center of Photography,
David Seidner Archive. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 11. Jungle, The Gay Party.
Figure 12. PinkBeach.
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Figure 13. Têtu Sport cover. © Têtu. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 14. © TÊTU #132, avril 2008. Reprinted with permission.
Figure 15. KAISERIN 03 cover. © Kaiserin Magazine. Reprinted with permission.
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