Katharina Lindner
I am a Lecturer in Film & Media and a member of the Centre for Gender & Feminist Studies at the University of Stirling.
My research interests are interdisciplinary and include film phenomenology; gender and queer theory; queer cinema; film festivals; media sport; feminist film (theory); and affect.
I have published work on athleticism and cinema, dance in film, sport and (post)feminism, queer cinema, film phenomenology, as well as on bodily performance and embodiment and/in film.
My most recent research engages specifically with queer/feminist critiques of traditional (film) phenomenology and explores questions of embodiment, sensuousness and affect in relation to a variety of film bodies (Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, I.B. Tauris, 2017).
Address: [email protected]
My research interests are interdisciplinary and include film phenomenology; gender and queer theory; queer cinema; film festivals; media sport; feminist film (theory); and affect.
I have published work on athleticism and cinema, dance in film, sport and (post)feminism, queer cinema, film phenomenology, as well as on bodily performance and embodiment and/in film.
My most recent research engages specifically with queer/feminist critiques of traditional (film) phenomenology and explores questions of embodiment, sensuousness and affect in relation to a variety of film bodies (Film Bodies: Queer Feminist Encounters with Gender and Sexuality in Cinema, I.B. Tauris, 2017).
Address: [email protected]
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Drawing specifically on ‘queer’ critiques of traditional phenomenology, this chapter explores the ways in which depictions of female athleticism might ‘trouble’ the heteronormative representational conventions and narrative trajectories of (mainstream) cinema, while also highlighting the possibilities for more fully embodied spectatorial engagements these depictions provide. It accounts for the embodied, experienced and ‘lived’ dimensions of (gender and sexual) difference, and begins to conceptualise the ways in which articulations of female athleticism (and the kinds of non-normative/queer bodily existences and subjectivities associated with it) might ‘speak to’ and ‘touch’ lesbian spectators in particular.
As such, this chapter not only points to ways of understanding the appropriative viewing experience in more fully embodied terms; it also opens up possibilities for thinking though questions around lesbian representability from a phenomenological perspective, by highlighting how lesbianism might be articulated in ways that makes ‘sense’ to lesbian viewers in the context of their embodied histories and memories and in relation to their everyday ‘lesbian’ experiences.
Drawing specifically on ‘queer’ critiques of traditional phenomenology, this chapter explores the ways in which depictions of female athleticism might ‘trouble’ the heteronormative representational conventions and narrative trajectories of (mainstream) cinema, while also highlighting the possibilities for more fully embodied spectatorial engagements these depictions provide. It accounts for the embodied, experienced and ‘lived’ dimensions of (gender and sexual) difference, and begins to conceptualise the ways in which articulations of female athleticism (and the kinds of non-normative/queer bodily existences and subjectivities associated with it) might ‘speak to’ and ‘touch’ lesbian spectators in particular.
As such, this chapter not only points to ways of understanding the appropriative viewing experience in more fully embodied terms; it also opens up possibilities for thinking though questions around lesbian representability from a phenomenological perspective, by highlighting how lesbianism might be articulated in ways that makes ‘sense’ to lesbian viewers in the context of their embodied histories and memories and in relation to their everyday ‘lesbian’ experiences.