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

Citation

Lindner K (2017) Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema. Library of Gender and Popular Culture. London: I.B Tauris. http://www.ibtauris.com/books/the%20arts/film%20tv%20%20radio/films%20cinema/film%20theory%20%20criticism/female%20bodies%20and%20performance%20in%20film%20queer%20encounters%20with%20embodiment%20and%20affect

Abstract
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.

Keywords
gender; cinema; queer cinema; phenomenology; Sara Ahmed; embodiment; affect; dance; physicality; corporeality; haptic; Celine Sciamma;