Sensational pleasures in cinema, literature and visual culture : the phallic eye /

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 anx...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Other Authors:	Padva, Gilad, 1967- (Editor), Buchweitz, Nurit (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	Masculinity in motion pictures. Phallicism in literature. Sex in motion pictures. The arts: general issues. Film theory & criticism. Literary theory. Art and Design. PERFORMING ARTS / Reference. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.