Transgression in Anglo-American cinema : gender, sex, and the deviant body / edited by Joel Gwynne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gwynne, Joel, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deviant behavior in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Human body in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Wallflower Press, [2016]

Summary:

Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise prove to be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on the margins of mainstream production in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, paying particular attention to embodied deviations of normative cultural scripts. It seeks to understand the ways in which transgression is acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes not only gender discourse but also reflects cultural and institutional power more discursively. In their analysis of a number of provocative, contemporary films such as Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013), and navigating themes such as queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction and underage sex, the essays in this volume problematize received understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of not only oppression but also liberation and resistance. Ultimately, this collection advocates a discussion of culturally rejected forms of love, desire and sex. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Extreme Bodies, Extreme Desire

Chapter 1 The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction / Alistair Fox Fox, Alistair 9

Chapter 2 Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame and Thanatamorphose / Mark Featherstone Featherstone, Mark 25

Chapter 3 Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation? / Niall Richardson Richardson, Niall 43

Chapter 4 Proving their 'Virility'? Steve McQueen's Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity / Alison Garden Garden, Alison 57

Chapter 5 Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Wale Body in Recent American Cinema / Tom Steward Steward, Tom 73

Chapter 6 Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary / Alice Haylett Bryan Bryan, Alice Haylett 89

Part II Adolescence, Ageing and Queer Agency

Chapter 7 A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River / Vulcan Volkan Demirkan-Martin Demirkan-Martin, Vulcan Volkan 103

Chapter 8 Crash-and-Bum Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discources in Independent Cinema / Joel Gwynne Gwynne, Joel 119

Chapter 9 'Please be a good boy': Challenging Perception of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema / Amy C. Chambers Chambers, Amy C. 131

Chapter 10 Nowhere Teens: Following Gregq Araki's Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century / Arnau Roig-Mora Roig-Mora, Arnau 147

Chapter 11 Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal / Eva Krainitzki Krainitzki, Eva 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780231176057

0231176058

023117604X

9780231176040

OCLC:

930485979