Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Padva, Gilad; Koren-Maimon, Yair

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.

Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism, this book vigorously questions and problematizes numerous artistic, aesthetic, technological, naïve, and macabre manipulations of body parts for various purposes. A diverse team of authors explore how scribing human traits to limbs, eyes, brains, genitalia, hearts, and other inner organs is grotesque and aesthetic, repealing and appealing, intimidating and intimate, rude and enjoyable, material and spiritual, surprising and mundane. Personified organs are interrelated with bodily integrity, visceral aesthetics, distorted nature, social anxiety and acceptability, cultural classifications and hierarchies, and dissident innovativeness andradicalism.

This interdisciplinary volume involves body studies; cinema, television, and media studies; literature studies; cultural, intercultural, and countercultural studies; mythology and folklore studies; gender, sexuality, trans and queer studies; ethnicities and postcolonialism; and art history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040331002
• Artikelnr.: 73576966

Autorenporträt

Gilad Padva is a scholar and lecturer in cultural studies, film studies, men's studies and queer theory. He is the author of Straight Skin, Gay Masks, and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen (2020) and Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014). He is the co-editor of Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (2020), Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017), and Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014). He is currently an independent scholar and lecturer. Yair Koren-Maimon is the Chair of the Department of Literature and a senior lecturer at Gordon College of Education in Haifa, Israel. His main research interests are multidisciplinary literature studies, psychology, gender studies and film studies. He is the author of Therapist-Patients Relations in the Literature of Shmuel Yosef Agnon [in Hebrew] (2015) and the co-editor of Representations: Reality, Imitation, and Imagination-Critical Studies [in Hebrew] (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Erotically Charged, Horrible Hands of Orlac: A Trans Masculine
Attunement
2. Salvador Dalí's Sublime Buttocks
3. Bodies without Organs in Bertrand Mandico's Cinema: Exploring Sexuality
and Desire in a Post-gender World
4. The Animated Cock: Carnivals, Cannibals, and Personified White Phalluses
in Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle
Part II Amputated Minds of Their Own
5. "We Are Our Brains": Disembodied Brain Films in 1950s Cold War America
6. (Dis)embodied Heads and Gender Subversion in Kurahashi Yumiko's Bizarre
Little Stories
7. Off with Her Head: Renaissance Queens, Medusa, and the Threat of the
Female Head
Part III
8. Philomela's Tongue
9. Threatening Memories: The Consciousness of the Disembodied Hand (350)
10. What's in an Organ? A Study of Personified Body Parts in the Grimm
Brothers' Fairytale "The Three Surgeons"
Part IV
Struggle to Recover the Potential Space in Gogol's Story "The Nose"
12. Personified Body Parts as Lonely People's Pets in Gary Kilworth's
"Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands"
Part V
13. The Autonomous Eye in Alfred Hitchcock's The Blind Man
14. "'Bli Ayin Ha'Ra!" (May the Evil Eye Not Affect You): The Autonomous
Eye as A Personification of Evil in Judaism
15. The Eye and the Vagina as Windows of the Imagination: Pan's Labyrinth