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Film Bodies
Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
Film Bodies
Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
Description
The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies. In Film Bodies, Katharina Lindner takes existing debates into a new direction and integrates queer and feminist theory with film phenomenology. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Lindner explores the female body's presence in a range of genres including the dance film, the sports film and queer cinema.
Moving across mainstream and independent cinema, Lindner provides detailed 'textural' analyses of Black Swan, The Tango Lesson, 2 Seconds, Offside, Tomboy and Girlhood and discusses the queer feminist encounters these films can give rise to. This provocative book is of vital interest to students and researchers of queer cinema, queer/feminist theory, embodiment and affect and offers a unique new way of understanding the relationship between queerness, feminism, the body and cinema.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 – Female Bodies in 'Action': Gender/Genre Trouble
Chapter 3 – 'Throwing Like a Girl'? Physicality and Athletic Performance on Screen
Chapter 4 – Dancing on Screen: Mirror-ing Movement
Chapter 5 – Queer Cinema: Queer Orientations?
Chapter 6 – Conclusion
Product details
Published | 16 Oct 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 328 |
ISBN | 9781838608552 |
Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
Illustrations | 26 bw illus |
Series | Library of Gender and Popular Culture |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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