Padva / Buchweitz Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

The Phallic Eye
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-36364-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Padva, G.

Buchweitz, N.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Phallic: "An Object of Terror and Delight"; Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz PART I: FORBIDDEN SPECTATORSHIP AND VISCERAL IMAGERIES 1. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; Rachel Gottesman 2. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; Lorrain Dumenil 3. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to Patriarchy and the Male Gaze; Marion Krautkaher-Ringa 4. The Monstrous Nonheteronormative: A Queer Positioning within American Horror Films By the Male Gaze; Matthew Martin 5. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: The Ethics of the Gaze in Irréversible; Kathleen Scott PART II: PHALLIC AND ANTI-PHALLIC FANTASIES 6. Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity; Finn Ballard 7. 'Look Closer': Sam Mendes' Visions of White Men; Ruth Heholt 8. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX; Sigal Barkai 9. Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of 'Looked-at-ness' Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011); Alexander Sergeant 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte, Or, A Reflection of/on 'Pornographic' Literature and Society; Fanny Delnieppe PART III: BLEEDING MASCULINITIES 11. "There's No Losing It:' Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo; Laura Christiansen 12. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding; James D. Stone 13. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender Bending Muscles in the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; Jacqueline Brady 14. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Francis Pheasant-Kelly PART IV: SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BROTHERS 15. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair; Mira Perampalam 16. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician, and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Brenda S. Gardenour PART V: GAPSAND CRACKS 17. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Marnie; Inbar Shaham 18. Pictura in Arcana: the Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack Lysane Fauvel 19. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or, The Sublimation of Desire; Virginie Thomas

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Gottesman, University of Haifa, Israel
Lorraine Dumenil, University Paris Sorbonne-Paris 3, France
Marion Krauthaker, University of Sunderland, UK
Mathew Martin, Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, USA
Kathleen Scott, University of St Andrews, UK
Finn Ballard, Historian, Germany
Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University, UK
Sigal Barkai, Beit Berl College, Israel
Alexander Sergeant, King's College, London, UK
Fanny Delnieppe, University of Avignon, France
Laura Christiansen, College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA
James Stone, University of New Mexico, USA
Jacqueline Brady, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), USA
Frances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Meera Perampalam, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France
Brenda Gardenour Walter, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, USA
Inbar Shaham, Open University, Israel
Lysane A. Fauvel, Southwestern University, USA
Virginie Thomas, English Teacher, Chambéry, France