Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema (eBook)

Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body

Joel Gwynne (Herausgeber)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85098-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts. It explores transgressions acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes gender discourse and reflects cultural and institutional power. Films analyzed include Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Navigating queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction, and underage sex, essays problematize understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence, and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of oppression, liberation, and resistance.

Autor

Joel Gwynne is associate professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His books include Erotic Memoirs and Postfeminism: The Politics of Pleasure; Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema; and Ageing, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Feminism.

Inhalt

Notes on ContributorsIntroduction. Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema, by Joel GwynnePart I: Extreme Bodies, Extreme Desire1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction, by Alistair Fox2. Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose, by Mark Featherstone3. Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation?, by Niall Richardson4. Proving their 'Virility'? Steve McQueen's Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity, by Alison Garden5. Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema, by Tom Steward6. Surgery, Blood, and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary, by Alice Haylett BryanPart II: Adolescence, Ageing and Queer Agency7. A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River, by Vulcan Volkan Demirkan-Martin8. Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema, by Joel Gwynne9. 'Please be a good boy': Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema, by Amy C. Chambers10. Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki's Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century, by Arnau Roig-Mora11. Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal, by Eva KrainitzkiIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2016
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85098-0 / 0231850980
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85098-8 / 9780231850988