TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aaron,Michele
AU  - Aaron,Michele
AU  - Hanson,Helen
AU  - Krzywinska,Tanya
AU  - Mackinnon,Kenneth
AU  - Mason,Fran
AU  - Pearl,Monica B.
AU  - Petley,Julian
AU  - Powell,Anna
AU  - Sweetman,Paul
AU  - Williams,Linda Ruth
TI  - The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture 
SN  - 9780748609611
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Film criticism
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Human body in motion pictures
KW  - Sex in literature
KW  - Sex in motion pictures
KW  - Film, Media & Cultural Studies
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585159225
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780585159225
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780585159225/original
ER  -