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Sensational pleasures in cinema, literature and visual culture
This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary 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.
Introduction: The Phallic: "An Object of Terror and Delight"; Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz -- PART I: FORBIDDEN SPECTATORSHIP AND VISCERAL IMAGERIES -- 1. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; Rachel Gottesman -- 2. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; Lorrain Dumenil -- 3. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to Patriarchy and the Male Gaze; Marion Krautkaher-Ringa -- 4. The Monstrous Nonheteronormative: A Queer Positioning within American Horror Films By the Male Gaze; Matthew Martin -- 5. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: The Ethics of the Gaze in "Irreversible"; Kathleen Scott -- PART II: PHALLIC AND ANTI-PHALLIC FANTASIES -- 6. Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity; Finn Ballard -- 7. 'Look Closer': Sam Mendes' Visions of White Men; Ruth Heholt -- 8. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition "The Uncanny XX"; Sigal Barkai -- 9. Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of 'Looked-at-ness' Manifested in "Sucker Punch" (2011); Alexander Sergeant -- 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte, Or, A Reflection of/on 'Pornographic' Literature and Society; Fanny Delnieppe -- PART III: BLEEDING MASCULINITIES -- 11. "There's No Losing It:' Disability and Voyeurism in "Rear Window" and "Vertigo"; Laura Christiansen -- 12. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in "Romeo is Bleeding"; James D. Stone -- 13. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender Bending Muscles in the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; Jacqueline Brady -- 14. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Francis Pheasant-Kelly -- PART IV: SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BROTHERS -- 15. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual "Affair"; Mira Perampalam -- 16. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician, and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Brenda S. Gardenour -- PART V: GAPS AND CRACKS -- 17. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's "Marnie"; Inbar Shaham -- 18. Pictura in Arcana: the Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack Lysane Fauvel -- 19. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or, The Sublimation of Desire; Virginie Thomas.
edited by Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz.
Includes bibliographical references and index.