Girl meets girl: sexual sitings in lesbian romantic comedies
Edited book (chapter)
McWilliam, Kelly. 2017. "Girl meets girl: sexual sitings in lesbian romantic comedies." Padva, Gilad and Buchweitz, Nurit (ed.) Intimate relationships in cinema, literature and visual culture. London, United Kingdom. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 145-155
| Chapter Title | Girl meets girl: sexual sitings in lesbian romantic comedies |
|---|---|
| Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
| ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
| Book Title | Intimate relationships in cinema, literature and visual culture |
| Authors | |
| Author | McWilliam, Kelly |
| Editors | Padva, Gilad and Buchweitz, Nurit |
| Page Range | 145-155 |
| Chapter Number | 11 |
| Number of Pages | 11 |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Place of Publication | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN | 9783319552811 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55281-1 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55281-1_11 |
| Abstract | Hollywood romantic comedies are, by and large, an ideologically conservative genre. Based around gender stereotypes and the idealised pursuit, however disguised, of heteropatriarchal monogamy, Hollywood romantic comedies offer countless variations of heteronormative ‘intimacy’. How, then, does the shift from ‘boy meets girl’ to ‘girl meets girl’ in lesbian romantic comedies—a genre that emerged in 1994 with the release of films like Bar Girls and Go Fish—effect the representation of intimacy? This chapter focuses on Better than Chocolate to investigate how lesbian intimacies, and lesbian sex in particular, occupy space. Where are lesbian intimacies sited and what, if any, negotiations of space are triggered through the embodiment of those intimacies? Ultimately, this chapter argues that through an unusually explicit emphasis on sex, Better than Chocolate draws attention to the limited public mobility of lesbian intimacies through a consistent siting of lesbian sex as a site of spatial negotiation. |
| Keywords | lesbian romantic comedies, intimacy, sex, queer cinema, Better than Chocolate |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified |
| 360501. Cinema studies | |
| 470214. Screen and media culture | |
| Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
| Byline Affiliations | School of Arts and Communication |
| Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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