Lesbian Bars, Archival Media Bricolage and Research-Creation: Revisiting After Hours Chez Madame Arthur

Julianne Pidduck is associate professor in the Communication Department at the Université de Montreal. Her work explores questions of gender and sexuality in visual culture and public discourse, including cinematic gender and genre, public discourses and visual media related to gender violence, and LGBTQI2+ media visibility and enunciation. She has recently co-edited with Joëlle Rouleau a special issue of the journal Cinémas entitled “Le regard queer et l’image en movement” (Queer looks and the moving image). Pidduck has published widely in scholarly journals such as camera obscura, Media, culture & society, Jump Cut, GLQ, Studies in French Cinema, Screen, and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies. In 2019, she curated a multimedia installation entitled After Hours Chez Madame Arthur as part of her current study of LGBTQ+ post-war media entitled Afterimages and urban spaces. She is also a core member of the Queer Media Database Canada/Quebec Project.