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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lindner, Katharina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
Series:Library of gender and popular culture ; 17.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.