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Film Bodies

Katharina Lindner
Film Bodies Book PDF

Author : Katharina Lindner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838608545

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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. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Lindner 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.

Film Bodies

Katharina Lindner
Film Bodies Book PDF

Author : Katharina Lindner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838608552

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Film Bodies by Katharina Lindner Pdf

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. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Lindner 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.

Spectacular Bodies

Yvonne Tasker
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Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134873012

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While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Bodies in Pain

Tarja Laine
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Author : Tarja Laine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781785335211

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The films of Darren Aronofsky invite emotional engagement by means of affective resonance between the film and the spectator’s lived body. Aronofsky’s films, which include a rich range of production from Requiem for a Dream to Black Swan, are often considered “cerebral” because they explore topics like mathematics, madness, hallucinations, obsessions, social anxiety, addiction, psychosis, schizophrenia, and neuroscience. Yet this interest in intelligence and mental processes is deeply embedded in the operations of the body, shared with the spectator by means of a distinctively corporeal audiovisual style. Bodies in Pain looks at how Aronofsky’s films engage the spectator in an affective form of viewing that involves all the senses, ultimately engendering a process of (self) reflection through their emotional dynamics.

Uncanny Bodies

Robert Spadoni
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Author : Robert Spadoni
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520940703

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In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.

Bodies in Suspense

Alanna Thain
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Author : Alanna Thain
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452953519

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Bodies in Suspense presents a powerful new way to think through postdigital cinema and the affective turn in critical theory. According to Alanna Thain, suspense films allow us to experience the relation between two bodies: that of the film and that of the viewer. Through the “time machine” of suspense, film form, gender, genre, and spectatorship are revealed in innovative and different ways. These films not only engage us directly in ethical concerns, but also provide a key for understanding corporeal power in the digital era. Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic suspense, Bodies in Suspense argues that the “body in time” enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the body directly. This is the first book to link two contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic temporality and contemporary affect theory. Thain conducts close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Christian Marclay, Rian Johnson, and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of cinema, reading for the productivity of the “crime of time” that stages the duplicity of cinematic bodies. Through these films that foreground doubled characters and looping, Thain explores Gilles Deleuze’s claim that “the direct time-image is the phantom which has always haunted cinema.” A vital new addition to film theory, corporeality and affect theory, feminist theory, and the philosophy of time—and one of the first books to explore David Lynch’s Hollywood trilogy—Bodies in Suspense asks us to pay attention, above all, to the ways in which the condition of spectatorship creates a doubling sensation with important philosophical repercussions.

Hard Bodies

Susan Jeffords
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Author : Susan Jeffords
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813520037

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Hard Bodies looks at some of the most popular films of the Reagan era and examines how the characters, themes, and stories presented in them often helped to reinforce and disseminate the policies, programs, and beliefs of the 'Reagan Revolution.'

Despotic Bodies and Transgressive Bodies

Tatjana Pavlovic
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Author : Tatjana Pavlovic
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780791487693

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Examines crucial moments of transition in Spanish culture and society during both dictatorship and democracy.

Different Bodies

Marja Evelyn Mogk
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Author : Marja Evelyn Mogk
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780786465354

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This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies while also contributing significantly to the field. An introduction gives background on disability studies and appendices provide a filmography and a list of suggested reading.

Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies

Chris Straayer
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Author : Chris Straayer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231079796

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On homosexuality in cinema.

Captive Bodies

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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Author : Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791441555

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Examines the film industry's fascination with bondage and captivity.

Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction

Denisa Butnaru
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Author : Denisa Butnaru
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839447291

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In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.

Transgressive Bodies

Niall Richardson
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Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317007395

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In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.

Impossible Bodies

Christine Holmlund
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Author : Christine Holmlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136284434

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Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, and yet who occupy key and revealing positions in today's mainstream cinema. Exploring a range of genres and considering both stars and their sidekicks, Holmlund examines ways in which Hollywood accommodates - or doesn't - a variety of 'impossible' bodies, from the 'outrageous' physiques of Dolph Lundgren and Dolly Parton, to the almost-invisible bodies of Asian-Americans, Latinas and older actors.

Masculinity

Peter Lehman
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Author : Peter Lehman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135273477

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Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema.