The Body's Perilous Pleasures : Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture /
Aaron, Michele
The Body's Perilous Pleasures : Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture / Michele Aaron. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Identifying Risks -- 1 After Mulvey: Male Erotic Objectification -- 2 The Inside-out of Masculinity: David Cronenberg's Visceral Pleasures -- 3 The Figure in Question: The Transvestite Character as a Narrative Strategy in The Crying Game -- 4 'Til Death Us Do Part: Cinema's Queer Couples Who Kill -- PART II Untold Risks -- 5 The Monstrous Child -- 6 Loving the Technological Undead: Cyborg Sex and Necrophilia in Richard Calder's Dead Trilogy -- 7 Post-feminist Futures in Film Nair -- 8 Blood is the Drug: Narcophiliac Vampires in Recent Women's Fiction -- PART III Marked Risks -- 9 Only Skin Deep? Tattooing, Piercing and the Transgressive Body -- 10 Cicciolina and the Dynamics of Transgression and Abjection in Explicit Sex Films -- 11 Symptoms of AIDS in Contemporary Film: Mortal Anxiety in an Age of Sexual Panic -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748609611 9780585159225
10.1515/9780585159225 doi
American fiction--History and criticism.
Film criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human body in motion pictures.
Sex in literature.
Sex in motion pictures.
Film, Media & Cultural Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
The Body's Perilous Pleasures : Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture / Michele Aaron. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Identifying Risks -- 1 After Mulvey: Male Erotic Objectification -- 2 The Inside-out of Masculinity: David Cronenberg's Visceral Pleasures -- 3 The Figure in Question: The Transvestite Character as a Narrative Strategy in The Crying Game -- 4 'Til Death Us Do Part: Cinema's Queer Couples Who Kill -- PART II Untold Risks -- 5 The Monstrous Child -- 6 Loving the Technological Undead: Cyborg Sex and Necrophilia in Richard Calder's Dead Trilogy -- 7 Post-feminist Futures in Film Nair -- 8 Blood is the Drug: Narcophiliac Vampires in Recent Women's Fiction -- PART III Marked Risks -- 9 Only Skin Deep? Tattooing, Piercing and the Transgressive Body -- 10 Cicciolina and the Dynamics of Transgression and Abjection in Explicit Sex Films -- 11 Symptoms of AIDS in Contemporary Film: Mortal Anxiety in an Age of Sexual Panic -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748609611 9780585159225
10.1515/9780585159225 doi
American fiction--History and criticism.
Film criticism.
Human body in literature.
Human body in motion pictures.
Sex in literature.
Sex in motion pictures.
Film, Media & Cultural Studies.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.