This book explores lesbians in film from early representations to contemporary ones, spanning sixty years and over twenty films. Concentrating on lesbian desire and subtext, Kabir draws on films such asQueen Christina,The Killing of Sister George,Rebecca, Desperately Seeking SusanandThe Color Purple. She details their narratives in conjunction with an examination of different spectating positions and new syntheses of filmic languages.
Deploying lesbian history, black subjectivity, feminist film criticism and material from psychoanalysis,Daughters of Desireexplores narrative, desire and identifications. From castration and agency to the fetishization of beauty, from mothering, narcissism, and Oedipus to rage and trauma, Kabir crosses frontiers in film studies and feminist theory.
Shameem Kabiris a writer and editor based in London, UK.
Acknowledgements
Filmography
Introduction: Desire, Dyke-Icons, Mothers and Others Matter
Part I Desire
1. Lesbian Desire on the Screen: The Mother as Other:The Hunger
2. The Castration of Lesbian Desire in Cinema: A Matter of Some Agency:Sister GeorgeNot at HerPersonal Best
3. European Lesbians in Film: Reformulating the Fetishization of Beauty:November MoonFallsAt First Sight
4. Lesbian Desire for Bedding Lesbians in Cinema: Plural Positionalities:Claire of the MoonWants toGo Fish & When Night is Falling
Part II Subtext
5. Lesbian Representations from Text to Screen: Reworking the Received:The Color PurpleandFried Green Tomatoes
6. Lesbians Come Out on Celluloid: Rage and Trauma as Subtext:LiannaonThin IceListens toNocturne
7. Early Cinema Lesbians in and out of the Closet: The Subtext Speaks the Unspeakable:RebeccaSeeksQueen Christinawith SeveralMaidens in Uniform
8. Lesbian Spectating on Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, InterdiscoulS&
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