| The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture Contributor(s): Aaron, Michele (Editor) |
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ISBN: 074860961X ISBN-13: 9780748609611 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $38.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1999 Annotation: "The Body's Perilous Pleasures" provides a provocative engagement with the cultural exploitation of the body and its dangerous desires. Focusing on contemporary film and fiction ( "Dead Ringers," "Crash," "The Crying Game," "Romeo is Bleeding," "The Exorcist," "Damage," "Heavenly Creatures," "Sister My Sister," and vampire and cyborg novels), the volume examines the construction of the body within cultural production and as a cultural product itself. It explores the stormy relationship between pleasure and danger -- those overlapping forces so prevalent in Western culture -- as well as the borders that mark them as distinct. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 99487861 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.14" W x 9.13" (0.81 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |