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

Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema
ISBN-10
1838608540
ISBN-13
9781838608545
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2017-10-16
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Katharina Lindner

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.

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