Tainted Love
Screening Sexual Perversion
Published on 28. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-78076-196-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, Tainted Love challenges the discourses and debates around sexual taboo, moral panics, degeneracy, deviance and disease, which present those who enact such sexualities as modern folk devils.
This timely collection brings together leading scholars who draw on a variety of critical approaches including adaptation, performance, cultural studies, queer theory, feminism and philosophy to examine screen representations of controversial sexualities from the weird and wonderful to the debased and debauched. Chapters explore provocative performances of hysteria and sexual obsession, `everyday' perversion in neoliberal culture, the radical potential of sadomasochism, adolescent sexuality in the films of Larry Clark, intergenerational sex and incestuous relations in French cinema, sexual obsession in gay cinema, the straightness of necrophilia, the presentation of the paedophile, Swedish Erotica's `good sex' and re-imagining the Marquis de Sade from film to slash fiction. In order to move past binary distinctions of good and bad, normal and abnormal, moral and immoral, Tainted Love seeks to critically interrogate perverse sexualities and sexual perversion on screen.
This timely collection brings together leading scholars who draw on a variety of critical approaches including adaptation, performance, cultural studies, queer theory, feminism and philosophy to examine screen representations of controversial sexualities from the weird and wonderful to the debased and debauched. Chapters explore provocative performances of hysteria and sexual obsession, `everyday' perversion in neoliberal culture, the radical potential of sadomasochism, adolescent sexuality in the films of Larry Clark, intergenerational sex and incestuous relations in French cinema, sexual obsession in gay cinema, the straightness of necrophilia, the presentation of the paedophile, Swedish Erotica's `good sex' and re-imagining the Marquis de Sade from film to slash fiction. In order to move past binary distinctions of good and bad, normal and abnormal, moral and immoral, Tainted Love seeks to critically interrogate perverse sexualities and sexual perversion on screen.
Reviews / Votes
'In the present media moment, sexual difference and deviance are respectively celebrated and vilified like never before. This volume, appearing at such a critical juncture with a laudable international and historical purview, approaches its noisy subject soberly and intelligently.' - Mattias Frey, University of Kent; author of Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture, 'Fearless, unnerving and provocative, Tainted Love is every cinephile's dream guide to the perverse politics of some of the most transgressive films ever made.' - I. Q. Hunter, De Montfort University; author of Cult Film as a Guide to Film and British Trash Cinema, 'This new collection of essays on screening sexual perversion examines the cinematic representation of perverse sexual desire with the intent of illuminating how film culture negotiates and illuminates sexual transgression. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of sexual representation in contemporary film culture.' - Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology; author of Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire and Mediated Sex: Pornography and Postmodern CultureMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
18 bw integrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-196-1 (9781780761961)
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06/2017
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Persons
Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy are senior lecturers in film and television at Southampton Solent University, UK. Darren is the co-editor of Hard to Swallow: Hardcore Pornography on Screen (2012). Donna is the author of Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (2011).
Content
A Prelude to Perversion Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy
Too Close for Comfort: Mainstream Perversion, Marginal Tastes
2. 'Does This Look Sexual To You?': Neoliberal Culture and Everyday Perversion Martin Fradley
3. Provocative Performances of Perversion Donna Peberdy
'Keep it to yourself': Shameful Masturbation in American Film Wickham Clayton
Reviled Bodies: Fantasies, Realities and the Boundaries of the Explicit
2. 'Straight' Necrophilia as a 'Queer' Perversion in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed Lisa Downing
3. The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fantasma and Erotomania John Mercer
4. Perverting the Explicit: Catherine Breillat's Visual Vocabulary of Desire Helen Hester
Coming of Age: Generational Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons
5. Larry Clark's Sex Education: Teenage Sexuality and the Denial of Denial Sarah Arnold
6. The Age of Perversion: L'ennui, Erotic Combat and Intergenerational Existentialism Beth Johnson
7. Mapping the Adolescent Male Body: Queerness, Paedophilia and Perversion in L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin Sarah Sinwell
8. A Mother's Love Cannot be Denied: Ma Mere Clarissa Smith
Sexual Infidelity: Adapting the Deviant, Re-imagining the Perverse
9. Perverting the Marquis de Sade Sarah Harman
10. 'Something Sweet': Little Children, the Sex Offender and Emma Bovary's Eyes Guy Barefoot
11. Let the Right One In and the Wrong One Go: Erasing the Paedophile in Let the Right One In Darren Kerr
Too Close for Comfort: Mainstream Perversion, Marginal Tastes
2. 'Does This Look Sexual To You?': Neoliberal Culture and Everyday Perversion Martin Fradley
3. Provocative Performances of Perversion Donna Peberdy
'Keep it to yourself': Shameful Masturbation in American Film Wickham Clayton
Reviled Bodies: Fantasies, Realities and the Boundaries of the Explicit
2. 'Straight' Necrophilia as a 'Queer' Perversion in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed Lisa Downing
3. The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fantasma and Erotomania John Mercer
4. Perverting the Explicit: Catherine Breillat's Visual Vocabulary of Desire Helen Hester
Coming of Age: Generational Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons
5. Larry Clark's Sex Education: Teenage Sexuality and the Denial of Denial Sarah Arnold
6. The Age of Perversion: L'ennui, Erotic Combat and Intergenerational Existentialism Beth Johnson
7. Mapping the Adolescent Male Body: Queerness, Paedophilia and Perversion in L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin Sarah Sinwell
8. A Mother's Love Cannot be Denied: Ma Mere Clarissa Smith
Sexual Infidelity: Adapting the Deviant, Re-imagining the Perverse
9. Perverting the Marquis de Sade Sarah Harman
10. 'Something Sweet': Little Children, the Sex Offender and Emma Bovary's Eyes Guy Barefoot
11. Let the Right One In and the Wrong One Go: Erasing the Paedophile in Let the Right One In Darren Kerr