Screening the Dark Side of Love [electronic resource] : From Euro-Horror to American Cinema /
Ritzenhoff, Karen A.author.
Randell, Karen.author.
How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship.
Most essays in this collection were presented at a 2010 biennial conference, Film and History, held in Milwaukee, where "Love" was the main theme.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.
The whip and the body: sex, violence, and performative spectatorship in Euro-horror S&M cinema / Ian Olney -- Re-imagining censorship as "reel" mutilation: why not release a G-rated version of David Cronenberg's Crash? / Janet S. Robinson -- Antichrist: lost children, love, and the fear of excess / Terrie Waddell -- Black bucks and Don Juans: in the cut's seductive mythologies of race and sex / Tiel Lundy -- Mad love: the anxiety of difference in the films of Lon Chaney Sr. / Karen Randell -- Love, crime and Agatha Christie / Mark Aldridge -- Monstrous love: oppression, intimacy and transformation in Mary Reilly / Cynthia J. Miller -- Self-mutilation and dark love in Darren Aronofsky's Black swan (2010) and Michael Haneke's The piano teacher / Karen A. Ritzenhoff -- Female pleasure and performance: masochism in Belle de jour and Histoire d'o / Samm Deighan -- "What's in the basket?": sexualized and sexualizing violence in Frank Henenlotter's Basket case /  Lisa Cunningham -- Blood and bravado: violence, sex, and Spain in Pedro Almodóvar's film Matador / Meggie Morris -- The backhand of backlash: troubling the gender politics of domestic violence scenes in Tyler Perry's The family that preys / Jenise Hudson -- Fatal attraction redux?: the gender, racial, and class politics of obsessed / Suzanne Leonard and Bailey Ray -- The idea of love in the TV serial drama In treatment / Christine Lang -- Fucking machines: high-tech bodies in pornography /  Sarah Schaschek.
How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures-History.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Emotions.
Sociology.
Motion pictures-United States.
Screen Studies.
Film History.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Emotion.
Gender Studies.
American Cinema and TV.