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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ian FleishmanPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780810148031ISBN 10: 081014803 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 31 March 2025 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Agency as Failed Passing Part 1: Counterfeit Identities Chapter 1: Counterfeit Narratives: AndrÉ Gide’s Queer Coinages Chapter 2: Counterfeit Sexualities: Performativity in Jean Genet Part 2: Embodied Abstraction Chapter 3: Camp/Abject: Queer Failure in Rainer Werner Fassbinder Chapter 4: The Wound in Bloom: Werner Schroeter’s Gay Stigmata Part 3: Token Subversion Chapter 5: New Camp Extremity: Adaptation and Experimentation in FranÇois Ozon Chapter 6: Not Nothing: Xavier Dolan’s Vanishing Gay Aesthetic Coda: Flamboyant Fictions Notes BibliographyReviews"Fleishman takes us on an eye-opening journey in which narrative flamboyance knowingly and craftily signifies any number of shifting, elusive, and evolving aspects of queer sexuality; this was a story waiting for Fleishman to tell it.""—Michael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley “A scintillating book. Flamboyant Fictions is highly original and beautifully written. Fleishman offers elegant, economical, and brilliant reflections on difficult questions about queerness and art.”—Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge" Fleishman takes us on an eye-opening journey in which narrative flamboyance knowingly and craftily signifies any number of shifting, elusive, and evolving aspects of queer sexuality; this was a story waiting for Fleishman to tell it.""—Michael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley “A scintillating book. Flamboyant Fictions is highly original and beautifully written. Fleishman offers elegant, economical, and brilliant reflections on difficult questions about queerness and art.”—Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge Author InformationIan Fleishman is the inaugural chair of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of An Aesthetics of Injury: The Narrative Wound from Baudelaire to Tarantino (Northwestern University Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |