Title:
Sportswomen in cinema : film and the frailty myth / Nicholas Chare.
Author:
Chare, Nicholas, author.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
©2015.
Call Number:
PN1995.9.W6 C43 2015
Abstract:
Examines sports documentary and fiction films that center on female athletes, revealing how worldwide cinematic depictions of them can challenge received ideas about femininity, sexuality, and sport.
ISBN:
9781784530129
Series:
International library of the moving image ; 26
International library of the moving image ; 26.
Physical Description:
xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
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