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

By Katharina Lindner

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784536245
• ISBN13: 9781784536244
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"