Studies in French Cinema
Volume 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-155

Down and out: Immigrant poverty and queer sexuality in sébastien lifshitz’s wild side (2004) (Article)

Rees-Roberts N.*
  • a CELSA, Université de Paris IV – Paris Sorbonne, 77 rue de Villiers, Neuilly-sur-seine, 92000, France

Abstract

Wild Side takes up the sexual dynamics of the current climate of social authoritarianism instigated by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose continuing hard-line policy on immigration and sex work has airbrushed the extremism of Le Pen into a package of reforms pleasing to much middle-class France. Situating Lifshitz in the evolving genre of French Queer Cinema, I argue that Wild Side points to precarious material lives for those excluded from neo-liberal hegemony – immigrants, sex workers and transgender communities. © 2007 Intellect Ltd Article.

Author Keywords

Queer sexualitites French queer cinema Transgender Prostitution Immigration

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DOI: 10.1386/sfci.7.2.143_1
ISSN: 14715880
Cited by: 5
Original Language: English