Author Cristina Johnston

Cristina Johnston

Cristina Johnston is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Stirling (GB). She works primarily on contemporary French cinema, with a specific focus on gender and sexualities. Her most recent work has focused on Céline Sciamma's films, including an article entitled 'The Queer Circulation of Objects in the Films of Céline Sciamma' in 2021, but she has also published work on French banlieue cinema and on transatlantic stardom focusing on figures such as Jean Reno and Catherine Deneuve, as well as a book entitled French Minority Cinema (Rodopi, 2011).

Ma Vie de Courgette (My Life as a Courgette, Claude Barras, 2016)

Cristina Johnston

September 2022

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Much recent critical literature on cinematic representations of childhood explores the ways in which contemporary cinema bears witness to “a new recognition of the imbrication of children's lives with the polit...