Darren Waldron's research while affiliated with The University of Manchester and other places
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Publications (2)
With more than 3.7 million tickets sold in 2002, 8 femmes is prolific director Franois Ozon's greatest commercial success by far. The film centres on a murder enquiry among eight women snowbound in a rural mansion, one of whom is suspected of having murdered Marcel, the patriarch of the house. Yet, the plot is secondary, functioning simply as a lau...
Salut cousin (1996) and Chouchou (2003) were both made by Algerian-born director Merzak Allouache and cast one of France's biggest comic stars, Gad Elmaleh, in the main role. Both films use comedy to explore the migration of young men from Algeria and the integration of French Maghrebis. However, as this article demonstrates, despite their similari...
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... Berghahn's (2011) use of the term "gay" in relation to the protagonists of My Beautiful Laundrette is also paradigmatic when the scriptwriter Hanif Kureishi precisely avoided the use of the term "gay" in the film (Barron, 2005). The denomination "gay" also appears questionable when it is used to refer to characters who do not identify as such and who present a strong feminine identification: This is the case of the protagonist of Chouchou, who both Waldron (2007) and Tarr (2007) qualify as "gay transvestite"; or of Berghahn (2011), who refers to the uncategorizable Lola (Lola+Bilidikid) as a "gay man, who performs as a drag queen", when precisely the character's Brought to you by | University of Exeter Authenticated Download Date | 10/28/19 7:28 PM conflict stems from not finding a way to experience his/her gender and desire in the context of the clash between Turkish and German cultures; or when Tarr (2007, p. 16) qualifies the protagonist of Origine Contrôlée as a "gay male transvestite", when she is a character who identifies completely as a woman and, in fact, the spectator does not know that she was born male until the end of the film. ...
