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Book SynopsisThis collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts.
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
