A bold and far-reaching new study of French queer cinema reimagines the relationship between sexuality and space Spatiality has long been a crucial and potent lens for understanding French culture and aesthetics. While canonical greats of French cinema such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agn-Varda, and Louis Malle invoked the notion of fl-rie to explore ideas of modernism, spatial exploration, and urban sociality, Jules O-Dwyer demonstrates how a more recent generation of French queer filmmakers continue to engage with-and contest-this legacy by focusing their attention on the cognate practice of cruising. Through the work of Jacques Nolot, S-stien Lifshitz, Christophe Honor-Vincent Dieutre, Alain Guiraudie, and others, The Seduction of Space draws film theory, queer studies, and spatial inquiry into close proximity to examine the politics of cruising and the gendering of space. Making the case that cinema not only documents the queer spaces of the past but continues to produce them, O-Dwyer maps
