Sensational pleasures in cinema, literature and visual culture : the phallic eye / edited by Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Padva, Gilad, 1967-

Buchweitz, Nurit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity in motion pictures.

Phallicism in literature.

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xiii, 308 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literal and visual cultures and their invasive nature. The phallic eye is analyzed as a spectacle of the obscene, the scene and the sin, a visualization of guilty pleasures and outrageous lusts that evoke anxiety, guilt, satisfaction, intimacy and intimidation. The phallic eye is a powerful and useful metaphor for a radical investigation of the interrelations between spectatorship, authorship, dominance, Mulvey's theorization of voyeurism/exhibitionism/looked-at-ness, and surveillance of human desires and visual pleasures. This volume suggests a broad perspective on the phallus as passionate, dynamic and energetic force, which is more than the consuming, predatory eye of the beholder who yearns for sensational spectacles. The chapters focus on thrillers, horror cinema, pornography, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries

1 The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology / Rachel Gottesman Gottesman, Rachel 21

2 The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia / Lorraine Dumenil Dumenil, Lorraine 35

3 The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to the Male Gaze / Marion Krauthaker-Ringa Krauthaker-Ringa, Marion 50

4 The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze / Matthew Martin Martin, Matthew 62

5 Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and the Phallic Gaze in Irréversible / Kathleen Scott Scott, Kathleen 74

Part II Phallic and Anti-Phallic Fantasies

6 Transcendental Gazes: Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity / Finn Jackson Ballard Ballard, Finn Jackson 91

7 "Look Closer": Sam Mendes's Visions of White Men / Ruth Heholt Heholt, Ruth 104

8 Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX / Sigal Barkai Barkai, Sigal 115

9 Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of "Looked-at-ness" Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011) / Alexander Sergeant Sergeant, Alexander 127

10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte or A Reflection of/on "Pornographic" Literature and Society / Fanny Delnieppe Delnieppe, Fanny 140

Part III Bleeding Masculinities

11 "There's No Losing It": Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo / Laura Christiansen Christiansen, Laura 157

12 The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding / James D. Stone Stone, James D. 169

13 Ambiguous Exposures: Gender-Bending Muscles of the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson / Jacqueline Brady Brady, Jacqueline 180

14 Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema / Frances Pheasant-Kelly Pheasant-Kelly, Frances 195

Part IV Surveillance and Big Brothers

15 Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair / Meera Perampalam Perampalam, Meera 215

16 Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Walter, Brenda S. Gardenour 231

Part V Gaps and Cracks

17 Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Mamie / Inbar Shaham Shaham, Inbar 245

18 Pictura in Arcana: The Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack / Lysane Fauvel Fauvel, Lysane 258

19 The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or The Sublimation of Desire / Virginie Thomas Thomas, Virginie 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137363633

1137363630

OCLC:

864093157