Spectacular physicalities : female athleticism in contemporary cinema

This thesis provides a critical account of contemporary female sports films. The research presented here is interdisciplinary in nature as it is situated in relation to (feminist) discourses around women and/in sport as well as women and/in cinema. Taking into account the embodied, discursive and ps...

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Main Author: Lindner, Katharina
Published: University of Glasgow 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500295