Rebecca Beirne - New Lesbian Cinema
publication date: Feb 23, 2011
'Lascivious lesbian vampires, evil lesbian stalkers, sexploitation films set in women’s prisons or all-girl boarding schools: these negative, stereotypical depictions of lesbians in film have been par for the course. But as a new research project has found, because of an increasing diversity worldwide of representations of female same-sex desire, these older visions are gradually diminishing to make way for a new cinematic canon. Paula Grunseit speaks with Dr Rebecca Beirne, author of Lesbians in World Cinema: 1931 to 2010'
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