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):

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction. Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema

Chapter 1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction

Chapter 2. Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame and Thanatomorphose

Chapter 3. Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation?

Chapter 4. Proving their ‘Virility’? Steve McQueen’s Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity

Chapter 5. Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema

Chapter 6. Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary

Chapter 7. A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River

Chapter 8. Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema

Chapter 9. ‘Please be a good boy’: Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema

Chapter 10. Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki’s Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century

Chapter 11. Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780231850988

0231850980

OCLC:

984520586