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