Professor of English Language and Literature at University of South Carolina and Author of Psycho-Sexual: Male Desir - David Greven
An exciting new study that will prove invaluable to scholars of Honoré's work, contemporary French cinema, and LGBTQI issues in the cinema. Gerstner and Nahmias do an expert job of unpacking the complexities of Honoré's brilliant but also at times impenetrable films. Their work illuminates the director's significance, and the authors examine his films with sensitivity, intelligence, and grace.
Associate Professor of Film Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Texas A&M University, and Author of Queer Bergman - Daniel Humphrey
An exceedingly welcome exemplar of queer analysis focused on a queer filmmaker. Wisely insisting upon queerness as a form of productive disturbance, the authors' reading of Honoré's too-little-seen trilogy does something rare in cinema studies: it brings a group of films into definitive focus while inspiring readers' own complex, enthusiastic reactions. This book will no doubt be read, returned to, and learned from by French, queer, and authorship scholars for many years to come.
Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College/City University of New York and Editor of Vincente Minne - Joe McElhaney
Christophe Honoré has become a pivotal figure in contemporary, post–New Wave French cinema. In this remarkable volume, so attentive to questions of cinematic form, David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias situate Honoré's filmmaking practice within a vital history of both queer aesthetics and French film theory.
Professor Emeritus of French and Film Studies and John E. Burchard Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at the Massachus - Edward Baron Turk
Christophe Honoré is a tour de force of deep explication. Its central chapter, Love Songs, ranks up there with the very best English-language stand-alone work on a specific French film. It's a pleasure to read such superb work.
