“Wonderful, Heavenly, Beautiful, and Ours”: Lesbian Fantasy and Media(ted) Desire in Heavenly Creatures

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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.View full textDownload full textKEYWORDSNew Zealand, spectatorship, desire, fantasy, queer, lesbian, Peter Jackson, Heavenly Creatures Related var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2012.673936