TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - "Wonderful, Heavenly, Beautiful, and Ours": Lesbian Fantasy and Media(ted) Desire in Heavenly Creatures
JO  - Journal of lesbian studies
A1  - Scahill, Andrew
SP  - 365
EP  - 375
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
N2  - Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994) is the story of two girls in New Zealand who form an intense erotic friendship based on a fantasy world they create, and how their forced separation leads them to commit matricide. Beneath the sensational surface, though, is another story: this is a film about cinema, about desire, and how queer spectators create new and unexpected meanings. This article argues that Heavenly Creatures is a queer love letter to the power of cinema, revealing how queer consciousness may indeed be constituted from foreclosed possibility by the medium-providing a landscape, a stage, and a mise-en-scène of desire.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1089-4160
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2012.673936
ID  - ref1
ER  -