Female Bodies and Performance in Film - Queer Encounters With Embodiment and Affect

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.

About the author

Katharina Lindner is Lecturer in Film and Media and a member of the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling, UK. She was also a professional footballer in a former life.

Summary

The representation of gender and sexuality is well-explored territory in film studies.

Product details

• Authors: Katharina Lindner, Katharina (Late of University of Stirling Lindner
• Assisted by: Claire Nally (Editor), Angela Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2015, delayed
• EAN: 9781784536244
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-624-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture; Library of Gender and Popular
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet