The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture

Michele Aaron

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

The Body's Perilous Pleasures

Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture

Michele Aaron

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585159225

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Focusing on contemporary film and fiction, this book examines the construction of the body, both within cultural production and as a cultural product itself, and provides a provocative engagement with the cultural representation of the body and its 'dangerous desires'. Transgressive interpretations of conventional imagery merge with critical considerations of subcultural forms. The topics discussed include male erotic objectification; narcissistic masculinity; male to female transvestism; cyborgs and female desire; body piercing; 'demonic' children in film; queer cinema; vampires in women's fiction; the cannibal film; cyborgs and necrophiliac desire; AIDS and reincarnation films. The films discussed include Videodrome, Dead Ringers, M. Butterfly, The Crying Game, Romeo is Bleeding, The Omen, Heavenly Creatures, Sister My Sister, Silenceof the Lambs and Delicatessen.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Michele Aaron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Identifying Risks
1 After Mulvey: Male Erotic Objectification Kenneth Mackinnon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 The Inside-out of Masculinity: David Cronenberg's Visceral Pleasures Linda Ruth Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3 The Figure in Question: The Transvestite Character as a Narrative Strategy in The Crying Game Helen Hanson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4 'Til Death Us Do Part: Cinema's Queer Couples Who Kill Michele Aaron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
PART II Untold Risks
5 The Monstrous Child Julian Petley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6 Loving the Technological Undead: Cyborg Sex and Necrophilia in Richard Calder's Dead Trilogy Fran Mason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7 Post-feminist Futures in Film Nair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
8 Blood is the Drug: Narcophiliac Vampires in Recent Women's Fiction Anna Powell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
PART III Marked Risks
9 Only Skin Deep? Tattooing, Piercing and the Transgressive Body Paul Sweetman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10 Cicciolina and the Dynamics of Transgression and Abjection in Explicit Sex Films Tanya Krzywinska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
11 Symptoms of AIDS in Contemporary Film: Mortal Anxiety in an Age of Sexual Panic Monica B. Pearl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

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Published: February 7, 2022
ISBN: 9780585159225