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Non-Fiction
Part of the Queer Film Classics series of monographs on films for LGBT audiences, launched in 2009. I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing is a quirky, ethereal lesbian love story by Canadian director Patricia Rozema. (The title is from T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”) The film’s lead character is Polly, a socially awkward secretary who takes photographs as a hobby; when her former lover Mary, an artist, comes back into her life, Polly alternates between the growing realization that she is too old for Mary, and an idyllic dream state in which plain-looking people like her lead passionate lives. The film has appeared on the Toronto International Film Festival’s Best 10 Canadian Films of All Time. Feminist writer Camille Pagilia praised the film for its “wonderful comedy and realism.” Mendenhall situates the film in the context of the history of feminist films, written, directed and starring women. Academic interest in this title should come from LGBT, film, and women’s/gender studies.
© 2014 Arsenal Pulp Press (Ebook): 9781551525655
Release date
Ebook: 8 December 2014
1 of 16
Non-Fiction
Part of the Queer Film Classics series of monographs on films for LGBT audiences, launched in 2009. I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing is a quirky, ethereal lesbian love story by Canadian director Patricia Rozema. (The title is from T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”) The film’s lead character is Polly, a socially awkward secretary who takes photographs as a hobby; when her former lover Mary, an artist, comes back into her life, Polly alternates between the growing realization that she is too old for Mary, and an idyllic dream state in which plain-looking people like her lead passionate lives. The film has appeared on the Toronto International Film Festival’s Best 10 Canadian Films of All Time. Feminist writer Camille Pagilia praised the film for its “wonderful comedy and realism.” Mendenhall situates the film in the context of the history of feminist films, written, directed and starring women. Academic interest in this title should come from LGBT, film, and women’s/gender studies.
© 2014 Arsenal Pulp Press (Ebook): 9781551525655
Release date
Ebook: 8 December 2014
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