Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture [electronic resource] : The Phallic Eye /
Padva, G.editor.
Buchweitz, N.editor.
This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction The Phallic: ""An Object of Terror and Delight""; Part I: Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries; 1 The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; 2 The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; 3 The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to the Male Gaze; 4 The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze; 5 Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and the Phallic Gaze in Irréversible; Part II: Phallic and Anti- Phallic Fantasies
6 Transcendental Gazes: Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity7 ""Look Closer"": Sam Mendes's Visions of White Men; 8 Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX; 9 Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of ""Looked-at-ness"" Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011); 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte or A Reflection of/on ""Pornographic"" Literature and Society; Part III: Bleeding Masculinities; 11 ""There's No Losing It"": Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo
12 The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding13 Ambiguous Exposures: Gender-Bending Muscles of the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; 14 Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Part IV: Surveillance and Big Brothers; 15 Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair; 16 Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Part V: Gaps and Cracks
17 Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Marnie18 Pictura in Arcana: The Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack; 19 The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or The Sublimation of Desire; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.
Motion pictures and television.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Film genres.
Sociology.
Screen Studies.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Genre.
Gender Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.