Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 244 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1784530123
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9780755694891
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9781784530129
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9781780764061
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9780857738455
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9780857728470
Series Statement:
International library of the moving image 26
Content:
"Sportswomen in Cinema considers both documentary and fiction films from a variety of periods and cultures, by directors including Kathryn Bigelow, Gurinder Chadha, Im Soon-rye, George Kukor, Ida Lupino, and Leni Riefenstahl. Drawing from psychoanalytic and phenomenological theories, the book presents a series of landmark close readings of films featuring a variety of different forms of athletic activity, including baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, boxing, climbing, football, rollerderby, surfing, tennis and track and field. In focusing on themes such as gesture, screen space and sound, it moves beyond a purely narrative analysis of sports films. What's more, as well as building on existing scholarship in sports studies to argue that sport should always be conceived of as more than simply competitive, the book also contributes to ongoing efforts in film theory to foster new feminist discourses on sexual difference. The ideas of thinkers such as Judith Butler, Bracha Ettinger, Griselda Pollock and Michel Serres are employed to explore how films featuring female athletes reflect changing perspectives on femininity and sexuality and also, potentially, contribute to transforming our perceptions about sportswomen and cinema. Sportswomen in Cinema is an important addition to the literature of film studies, gender studies and sports studies."--
Content:
The ascent of woman : climbing films -- Sexing the canvas : boxing films -- Athletic gestures : women's team sports films -- Venus in spikes : track and field films -- Muscle pictures : bodybuilding films -- Shaping the self : Martina Navratilova and the tennis film -- Surfing aesthetics : towards a matrixial reading of sports films -- Conclusion : raging whippet.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references.phiques (pages 223-234) et un index -- Comprend une filmographie (pages 235-237)
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 1
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755694891
