Film bodies : queer feminist encounters with gender and sexuality in cinema / Katharina Lindner.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-288) and index.

Introduction: Starting points, directions, tendencies. -- 1. Gender and the body in feminist and queer film criticism -- Film and embodiement: queer-ing film phenomenology -- Queer encounters with feminist politics: dancing bodies in 'The tango lesson' and 'Black swan' -- Queering the sports film: failure and gender (tres)passing in '2 seconds' and 'Offside' -- Céline Sciamma's 'queer' cinema: affirming gestures of refusal in 'Tomboy' and 'Girlhood' -- Conclusion: Collectivities, the familiar and (un)common sense.

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

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