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[email protected] warwick.ac.uk/lib-publications The Queer Cinema of Jacques Demy Georgia Mulligan A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Film and Television Studies Department of Film and Television Studies University of Warwick September 2017 1 Table of contents Acknowledgements 5 Abstract 6 List of illustrations 7 Note about references 14 Introduction 15 Chapter 1: New critical approaches to the Demy problem 26 Authorship 28 Genre 32 Stardom 34 Emotion and style 37 Queer and feminist methodologies 40 Feminism against the canon 40 Queer studies 45 Chapter 2: Demy and the New Wave 52 What is the New Wave? 55 Demy disappears from the New Wave canon 59 Is Demy New Wave? 63 La Luxure 65 Lola 69 Emotional realism and subjective time 71 The wrong kind of cinephilia 75 Queering the New Wave gaze and the New Wave man 81 La Baie des Anges 86 2 Paratext and publicity 87 The heterosexual couple 90 Denauralising Jeanne Moreau 96 Conclusion 101 Chapter 3: Demy’s failed films 103 Model Shop 108 New Hollywood and queer