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Posing the Subject: Sex, Illumination, and "Pumping Iron II: The Women"

Posing the Subject: Sex, Illumination, and "Pumping Iron II: The Women"

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Posing the Subject: Sex, Illumination, and "Pumping Iron II: The Women"

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Posing the Subject: Sex, Illumination, and "Pumping Iron II: The Women"

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Publisher

Champaign, Ill., etc: University of Texas Press

Journal title

Cinema journal, 1999-07, Vol.38 (4), p.24-44

Language

English

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Publisher

Champaign, Ill., etc: University of Texas Press

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Contents

Because the female bodybuilder in "Pumping Iron II: The Women" is constituted by being posed, she is the subject par excellence. This article considers that filmic subject through a logic of sex, strength, and semiotics.

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Posing the Subject: Sex, Illumination, and "Pumping Iron II: The Women"

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222326803

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_222326803

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ISSN

0009-7101,2578-4900

E-ISSN

1527-2087

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