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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21646| Appears in Collections: | Communications, Media and Culture Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Corporeality and Embodiment in the Female Boxing Film |
| Author(s): | Lindner, Katharina |
| Contact Email: | katharina.lindner@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | film cinema gender boxing boxing film female boxer masculinity genre violence sexuality embodiment corporeality physicality athleticism sport phenomenology Million Dollar Baby Girlfight Die Boxerin Clint Eastwood Hillary Swank spectatorship queer theory |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Date Deposited: | 8-Apr-2015 |
| Citation: | Lindner K (2014) Corporeality and Embodiment in the Female Boxing Film. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Summer (7), p. 18, Art. No.: 01. http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleLindner.html |
| Abstract: | This article engages with questions of corporeality in the boxing film. Within the context of debates that understand the genre as a space in which the tensions and contradictions around masculinity can be worked out (Baker; Woodward; Grindon), it explores the troubling, and potentially queer, implications of the female boxer in two contemporary boxing films: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004) and Die Boxerin (About a Girl, Catharina Deus, 2004). It does so with a particular emphasis on the significance of the corporeality of the boxing body and boxing performance, as well as the embodied spectatorial engagements made possible by the films’ incorporation of the female boxer’s queer orientations. |
| URL: | http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleLindner.html |
| Rights: | Publisher policy allows this work to be made available in this repository. Published in Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media by Film and Screen Media at University College Cork, Ireland, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Licence URL(s): | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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