Performing Place in French and Italian Queer Documentary Film Space and Proust's Lieu Factice /

• Main Author: Brett, Oliver (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-European influences.; Documentary films.; Motion pictures.; Queer theory.; Ethnology-Europe.; European literature.; European Cinema and TV.; Documentary.; Queer Studies.; European Culture.; European Literature.

This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's 'lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a post-postmodern world with a dispersed sense of the real. The practice of queer documentary i...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Contemporary queer cinema in France and Italy: undoing 'place'
• 2. Framing the 'lieu factice': shifting notions of documentary 'place'
• 3. Mourning 'place'
• 4. Forsaking 'place'
• 5. Intersecting 'place'
• 6. Conclusion.