Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784536244)

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. Film Bodies 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.

Author: Katharina Lindner
ISBN-10: 1784536245
ISBN-13: 9781784536244
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.20d