Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting
The Feiticeiro/a as Character
Published on 15. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXII, 226 pages
978-3-319-87934-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive 'pervert' characters in mainstream (not 'art'), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended re-phrasing of the notion of 'the pervert' as Feiticiero/a: a newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the scholarly tradition of the 'linguistic turn' of continental philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung
XXII, 226 p. 1 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
326 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-87934-5 (9783319879345)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-65043-2
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
10/2017
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
LJ Theo is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, where he runs the film school and teaches screenwriting and communications.
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction- Re-Phrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters.- Part 1. Myth: From the Absent, Invisible 'Pervert' to the 'Is-ness' of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 2.. Psycho-Analytic Absence: Freudian Object-Focus and the Resultant 'Pervert
sans
-Corpus'.- Chapter 3. Absenting Heteropatriarchal Discourses: The Invisible 'Pervert'.- Chapter 4. Anthropologically Present 'Perverts': Re-Instating the
Feitiço
as the
Feiticeiro/a
.- Part 2. Connotation:The Philosophical Constitution of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 5. Towards an Episteme for the
Feiticeiro/a:
Realism in Character Construction.- Chapter 6. The
Feiticeiro/a
and the Categorical 'Fetishist': Sexuality Prescribed through Psychiatric Classifications.- Chapter 7. The Internally Coherent
Feiticeiro/a
: A Structure not a Substance.- Part 3. Denotation: The Form of the
Feiticeiro/a
.- Chapter 8. The
Feiticeiro/a
as a Materially Identifiable Character: Subjectively Conceived Filmic Participants.- Chapter 9. Writing 'Perverse' Behaviour for the
Feiticeiro/a
: Revisioning the ICD Diagnostic Criteria.- Chapter 10. Rephrasing Character Action for the
Feiticeiro/a:
External Coherence through Transactional Relations.- Chapter 11. Conclusion: A Few of My Favourite Things: The
Feiticeiro/a
as Foundation for 'Pervert' Characterisation.