Sportswomen in Cinema
Film and the Frailty Myth
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 29 June 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350418998
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages258 pages
- Size 232x154x18 mm
- Weight 380 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 integrated bw 416
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 11
1.The Ascent of Woman : Climbing Films15
2.Sexing the Canvas : Boxing Films 41
3 Athletic Gestures : Women's Team Sports Films 67
4 Venus in Spikes: Track and Field Films 85
5 Muscle Pictures : Bodybuilding Films109
6 Shaping the Self: Martina Navratilova and the Tennis Film 131
7 Surfing Aesthetics: Towards a Matrixial Reading of Sports Films157
8 Conclusion: Raging Whippet 183
Notes197
Bibliography 223
Filmography 235
Index 239
