Queer European Cinema

Dr. Leanne Dawson is a Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Chair of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival. Her research focuses on LGBTQ representation in film, literature, theatre, performance art, and archives. Her publications include Queering German Culture (Camden House, 2017), Queering European Film Festivals (Taylor & Francis, 2017), and The Other: Gender, Sexuality and Ethnicity in European Cinema and Beyond (Taylor & Francis, 2014). She employs her academic research to create, promote and support queer culture beyond the academy: she has worked as a consultant for theatre; curated and introduced film seasons for cinemas; spoken about LGBTQ matters on the BBC; and is making a documentary, Femmes on Film about femme representation and socio-political reality.

• Introduction: Queer European Cinema: Queering Cinematic Time and Space 1. Passing and Policing: Controlling Compassion, Bodies and Boundaries in Boys Don’t Cry and Unveiled/Fremde Haut 2. Concealing, Revealing, and Coming Out: Lesbian Visibility in Dalibor Matanić’s Fine Dead Girls and Dana Budisavljević’s Family Meals 3. Loose Cannons Unloaded: Popular Music, Space, and Queer Identities in the Films of Ferzan Özpetek 4. The Ethics of Shared Embodiment in Queer, Feminist and Lesbian Pornography 5. Crossing Borders and Queering Identities in French-Language European Road Cinema