Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture

Introduction

Part I Erotically Charged Body Parts and Personified Sex Organs\

1. The Erotically Charged, Horrible Hands of Orlac: A Trans Masculine Attunement

2. Salvador Dali'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 Disembodied Consciousness and Corporeal Souls

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 Self-Personification of One's Own Body Parts

11. "It's My Nose That Has Run Away from Me": Dissociative Identity Disorder and a 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 Autonomous Eyes and Embodied Surveillance

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