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The Body's Perilous Pleasures : Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture / Michele Aaron.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748609611
  • 9780585159225
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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