The Body's perilous pleasures : dangerous desires and contemporary culture / editor, Michelle Aaron.
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TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1999.Description: vii, 232 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 074860961X
- 791.43653 AAR
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 791.43653 AAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000287335 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Focusing on contemporary film and fiction, this book examines the construction of the body, both within cultural production and as a cultural product itself, and provides a provocative engagement with the cultural representation of the body and its 'dangerous desires'. Transgressive interpretations of conventional imagery merge with critical considerations of subcultural forms. The topics discussed include male erotic objectification; narcissistic masculinity; male to female transvestism; cyborgs and female desire; body piercing; 'demonic' children in film; queer cinema; vampires in women's fiction; the cannibal film; cyborgs and necrophiliac desire; AIDS and reincarnation films. The films discussed include Videodrome, Dead Ringers, M. Butterfly, The Crying Game, Romeo is Bleeding, The Omen, Heavenly Creatures, Sister My Sister, Silenceof the Lambs and Delicatessen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
After Mulvey: male erotic objectification / Kenneth MacKinnon -- The inside-out of masculinity: David Cronenberg's visceral pleasures / Linda Ruth Williams -- The figure in question: the transvestite character as a narrative strategy in the Crying Game / Helen Hanson -- \'Til death us do part: cinema's queer couples who kill / Michele Aaron -- The monstrous child / Julian Petley -- Loving the technological undead: cyborg sex and necrophilia in Richard Calder's Dead trilogy / Fran Mason -- Post-feminist futures in film noir / Barbara Kennedy -- Blood is the drug: narcophiliac vampires in recent women's fiction / Anna Powell -- Only skin deep? tattooing, piercing and the transgressive body / Paul Sweetman -- Cicciolina and the dynamics of transgression and abjection in explicit sex films / Tanya Krzywinska -- Symptoms of AIDS in contemporary film: mortal anxiety in an age of sexual panic / Monica B. Pearl.