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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

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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