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

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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. Review “Lindner’s book is a valuable contribution… With sensitive attention to detail and to theoretical rigour, her book is distinctive and richly suggestive, important reading for those interested not only in film studies but in contemporary analyses of gender and feminist representation” - Times Higher Education Tags: Phenomenology, Film, Gender Studies, Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science, Movements Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Series Editors’ Foreword Introduction: Starting Points, Directions, Tendencies 1. Gender and the Body in Feminist and Queer Film Criticism Feminism and Film: What Body? Women’s Cinema? Countering Dominant Habits Grounding Butler: Queer (Theory), Identity, Politics Women and/ in Queer Cinema: (In)visibility and Appearance 2. Film and Embodiment: Queer- ing Film Phenomenology Grasping Cinema: Tactile, Muscular and Kinaesthetic Encounters Bodies, Movement and Cinematic Empathy Countering Normative Tendencies: Gender and/ in Phenomenology Touchy- Feely? The Gendering of Film Phenomenology 3. Queer Encounters with Feminist Politics: Dancing Bodies in The Tango Lesson and Black Swan Dance/ Film Why Dance? Gender and Sexuality and/ as/ in Motion Turning Tables: Feminist Reorientations in The Tango Lesson Out of Your Skin, Out of Your Mind: Unnervingly Visceral Encounters with the Dancing Body in Black Swan 4. Queering the Sports Film: Failure and Gender (Tres)Passing in 2 Seconds and Off side Towards a Queer Feminist Sports/ Film Phenomenology A Waste of Time? Bad Timing and Queer Failure in 2 Seconds On Being Off side : Lines and (Tres)passing 5. Céline Sciamma’s ‘Queer’ Cinema: Affirming Gestures of Refusal in Tomboy and Girlhood Trans, Lesbian or Queer? Passing, (Mis)Recognition and (Dis)Appearance in Tomboy Queer Shape- Shifting: Embodied Trajectories of Transformation and Resistance in Girlhood Conclusion: Collectivities, the Familiar and (Un)Common Sense Notes Bibliography Index