Film Bodies : Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

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Title: 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.
Authors: Katharina Lindner
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Women in motion pictures, Lesbians in motion pictures, Sex role in motion pictures, Gender identity in motion pictures, Feminism and motion pictures
Categories: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract: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.
ISBN:9781784536244
9781350258365
9781838608545
9781838608552