Lindner Katharina - Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters With Gender and Sexuality in Cinema

Katharina Lindner is Lecturer in Film and Media and a member of the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling. She was also a professional footballer in a former life.

In this challenging and provocative book, Katharina Lindner tackles the problems that film phenomenology has skirted around for years. What is a queer feminist phenomenology? What about female bodies that are in movement, that disrupt, that display themselves and unsettle? Who can speak about them and for them? Lindner looks at filmic female bodies that dance and play sport, and that are performatively queer, and examines the thrilling spaces and affective timeframes in which they move. The result is a new realm of queer feminist embodiment that enables different kinds of non-normative lived bodies to become visible and active, from tango dancers to tomboys, and boxers to ballerinas. A vital and significant development of film phenomenology.

Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Film Bodies vibrantly explores the intersections between film phenomenology and queer and feminist theories. Through a series of agile textual analyses, Lindner draws out the potential of the gendered body to trouble both cinemas sensory experience and film theorys critical categories. Film Bodies is an essential contribution to queer film scholarship.

Rosalind Galt, Head of Department of Film Studies, Kings College London

I cannot think of a single other scholar in the world who combines such an integrated approach to philosophical phenomenology, queer theory and feminist theory while also examining contemporary films in such insightful detail. It therefore follows that the book makes a startlingly original contribution to the field.

Jenny Chamarette, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Library of Gender and Popular Culture

From Mad Men to gaming culture, performance art to steam-punk fashion, the presentation and representation of gender continues to saturate popular media. This new series seeks to explore the intersection of gender and popular culture, engaging with a variety of texts drawn primarily from Art, Fashion, TV, Cinema, Cultural Studies and Media Studies as a way of considering various models for understanding the complementary relationship between gender identities and popular culture. By considering race, ethnicity, class, and sexual identities across a range of cultural forms, each book in the series will adopt a critical stance towards issues surrounding the development of gender identities and popular and mass cultural products.

For further information or enquiries, please contact the library series editors:

Claire Nally:

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Advisory Board:

Dr Kate Ames, Central Queensland University, Australia

Prof Leslie Heywood, Binghampton University, USA

Dr Michael Higgins, Strathclyde University, UK

Prof sa Kroon, rebro University, Sweden

Dr Niall Richardson, Sussex University, UK

Dr Jacki Willson, Central St Martins, University of Arts London, UK

Published and forthcoming titles:

Ageing Femininity on Film: The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema

Niall Richardson

All-American TV Crime Drama: Feminism and Identity Politics in

Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Lisa Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti

Beyonc: Celebrity Feminism in the Age of Social Media

Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

Female Bodies and Performance in Film: Queer Encounters with Embodiment and Affect

Katharina Lindner

Framing the Single Mother: Gender, Politics and Family Values in Contemporary

Popular Cinema

Louise Fitzgerald

Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity

John Mercer

Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in

Film and Television

Helen Davies and Claire OCallaghan (Eds)

The Gendered Motorcycle: Representations in Society, Media and Popular Culture

Esperanza Miyake

Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films

Julia Erhart

Girls Like This, Boys Like That: The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures

Victoria Cann

Love Wars: Television Romantic Comedy

Mary Irwin

Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema: Cyborgs, Troopers and Other Men

of the Future

Marianne Kac-Vergne

Paradoxical Pleasures: Female Submission in Popular and Erotic Fiction

Anna Watz

Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Popular Culture of Post-Crisis

Dion Kagan

Queer Horror Film and Television: Sexuality and Masculinity at the Margins

Darren Elliott-Smith

Queer Sexualities in Early Film: Cinema and Male-Male Intimacy

Shane Brown

Shaping Gym Cultures: Body, Image and Social Media

Nicholas Chare

Steampunk: Gender and the Neo-Victorian

Claire Nally

Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender

Rosie White

Television, Technology and Gender: New Platforms and New Audiences

Sarah Arnold

Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture

Melanie Kennedy

Published in 2018 by

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Copyright 2018 Katharina Lindner

The right of Katharina Lindner to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978 1 78453 624 4

eISBN: 978 1 78672 281 2

ePDF: 978 1 78673 281 1

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Contents

There are a great number of people who have contributed to and influenced this project, in one way or another, knowingly or not, through their scholarly brilliance, unconditional kindness, incisive questioning, invigorating curiosity, awe-inspiring vision and fearless convictions: