Tomboy by Cristina Johnston - 9780228023760

McGill-Queen's University Press

TomboyAuthor(s): Cristina Johnston\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228023760, 978-0228023760\nSynopsis\nCline Sciammas 2011 film Tomboy is the central work in the French filmmakers coming-of-age trilogy. Bracketed between La Naissance des pieuvres / Waterlilies [tel], an examination of girlhood and teenage desire, and the 2014 film Bande de filles / Girlhood, about the lives of a group of Black girls in their late teens living in the Paris suburbs, Tomboy is a quiet, understated examination of gender and queer selfhood amidst the shifting sands of late childhood and early adolescence.\n\nTomboy is an intimate and luminous film, tender but stark, and never sentimental. Written, cast, and filmed in a matter of months, it follows the experiences and burgeoning friendships of a ten-year-old child who moves to a new town during the summer holidays. First introducing themself as Mikal, they are, .