Sportswomen in cinema : film and the frailty myth / Nicholas Chare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chare, Nicholas, author.

Series:

International library of the moving image ; 26.

International library of the moving image ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports films--History and criticism.

Sports films.

Women athletes.

Women in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Other Title:

Sports women in cinema

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Comprend une filmographie (pages 235-237).

Includes bibliographical references.phiques (pages 223-234) et un index.

ISBN:

9780857738455

0857738453

9780857728470

0857728474

9780755694891

0755694899

OCLC:

1128159566