| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction. Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema -- PART I: EXTREME BODIES, EXTREME DESIRE -- Chapter 1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction -- Chapter 2. Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame and Thanatomorphose -- Chapter 3. Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation? -- Chapter 4. Proving their 'Virility'? Steve McQueen's Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity -- Chapter 5. Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema -- Chapter 6. Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary -- PART II: ADOLESCENCE, AGEING AND QUEER AGENCY -- Chapter 7. A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River -- Chapter 8. Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema -- Chapter 9. 'Please be a good boy': Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema -- Chapter 10. Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki's Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century -- Chapter 11. Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal |
| Summary |
Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts. It explores transgressions acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes gender discourse and reflects cultural and institutional power. Films analyzed include Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Navigating queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction, and underage sex, essays problematize understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence, and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of oppression, liberation, and resistance |
| Analysis |
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016) |
| Subject |
Deviant behavior in motion pictures.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Sex in motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
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Deviant behavior in motion pictures
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Human body in motion pictures
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Sex in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gwynne, Joel, editor
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| LC no. |
2016478944 |
| ISBN |
9780231850988 |
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0231850980 |
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