Sarah Cooper, ‘Green fingers: Jean Genet’s hands and flowers,’ Screen, Volume 65, Issue 4, Winter 2024, Pages 572–580, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjae044
As part of Screen‘s ‘Screening Hands’ dossier.
Sarah Cooper opens the dossier’s consideration of the ways that screen hands take us beyond anthropocentrism. By pursuing the metaphor of ‘green fingers’ and the association of human and plant reproductive parts, Cooper examines the fusion of the human hand with flowers in the mid 20th-century cinematic and literary work of Jean Genet. Her focus on Genet’s texts also advances our interests in how screen hands convey homoeroticism and other non-normative connections.