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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts.
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Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction. Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema, by Joel Gwynne Part I: Extreme Bodies, Extreme Desire 1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction, by Alistair Fox 2. Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose, by Mark Featherstone 3. Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation?, by Niall Richardson 4. Proving their 'Virility'? Steve McQueen's Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity, by Alison Garden 5. Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema, by Tom Steward 6. Surgery, Blood, and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary, by Alice Haylett Bryan Part II: Adolescence, Ageing and Queer Agency 7. A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River, by Vulcan Volkan Demirkan-Martin 8. Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema, by Joel Gwynne 9. 'Please be a good boy': Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema, by Amy C. Chambers 10. Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki's Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century, by Arnau Roig-Mora 11. Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal, by Eva Krainitzki Index
