CFP: Sex, Sexuality and Identity in the Cinema (3/31/04; journal issue)
[Sex, sexuality and nationality: interrupted coitus or continuous =
orgasm?]
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In Film Studies as elsewhere in the Humanities, sexuality and identity =
are often first conceptualized in psychoanalytical terms. In the case of =
a =93national cinema=94 =96 Quebec=92s cinema =96 the reflection on =
sexual identity opens the door to a second paradigm of analysis: the =
nation and the allegory. Femininity, masculinity, homosociality and =
homosexuality then become fertile ground for the allegorization of the =
national and the national identity around the sexual and sexual =
politics.
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