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Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue

PART ONE
PERFORMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

1 Contemporary Art Exhibitionists
2 Cutups in Beauty School

PART TWO
VISCERAL CINEMA

3 Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desire
4 Sex Work: Producing Porn
s David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjection

PART THREE
ARRESTING FICTION

6 J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitions
7 Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and
Robert Coover
8 New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and
William Vollmann
9 Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and
American Psycho

Epilogue
Notes
Index

Bad Girls and Sick Boys

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 01/10/1998
    ISBN13: 9780520210325, 978-0520210325
    ISBN10: 0520210328
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    Sex and sexuality, social aspects

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Turning the tables on the pornography debate, this is an analysis of taboo-shattering fiction, film and performance art. It investigates the role of fantasy in art, politics and popular culture and shows how technological advances in science and medicine have altered concepts of the human body.

    Table of Contents
    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Prologue

    PART ONE
    PERFORMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

    1 Contemporary Art Exhibitionists
    2 Cutups in Beauty School

    PART TWO
    VISCERAL CINEMA

    3 Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desire
    4 Sex Work: Producing Porn
    s David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjection

    PART THREE
    ARRESTING FICTION

    6 J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitions
    7 Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and
    Robert Coover
    8 New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and
    William Vollmann
    9 Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and
    American Psycho

    Epilogue
    Notes
    Index

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