Screening the dark side of love
Subtitle: from Euro-horror to American cinema
By: edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Karen Randell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230341548
Subjects: Congresses; Love in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; Sex role in motion pictures
Notes: Most essays in this collection were presented at a 2010 biennial conference,  Film and History, held in Milwaukee, where "Love" was the main theme.
Table of contents: title: The whip and the body: sex, violence, and performative spectatorship in Euro-horror S&M cinema / Ian Olney; title: Re-imagining censorship as "reel" mutilation: why not release a G-rated version of David Cronenberg's Crash? / Janet S. Robinson; title: Antichrist: lost children, love, and the fear of excess / Terrie Waddell; title: Black bucks and Don Juans: in the cut's seductive mythologies of race and sex / Tiel Lundy; title: Mad love: the anxiety of difference in the films of Lon Chaney Sr. / Karen Randell; title: Love, crime and Agatha Christie / Mark Aldridge; title: Monstrous love: oppression, intimacy and transformation in Mary Reilly / Cynthia J. Miller; title: Self-mutilation and dark love in Darren Aronofsky's Black swan (2010) and Michael Haneke's The piano teacher / Karen A. Ritzenhoff; title: Female pleasure and performance: masochism in Belle de jour and Histoire d'o / Samm Deighan; title: "What's in the basket?": sexualized and sexualizing violence in Frank Henenlotter's Basket case /  Lisa Cunningham; title: Blood and bravado: violence, sex, and Spain in Pedro Almodóvar's film Matador / Meggie Morris; title: The backhand of backlash: troubling the gender politics of domestic violence scenes in Tyler Perry's The family that preys / Jenise Hudson; title: Fatal attraction redux?: the gender, racial, and class politics of obsessed / Suzanne Leonard and Bailey Ray; title: The idea of love in the TV serial drama In treatment / Christine Lang; title: Fucking machines: high-tech bodies in pornography /  Sarah Schaschek.