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Caputi offers a broad theory of obscenity in contemporary American culture by answering the questions 'What is obscenity?' and 'How does obscenity operate within the confines of our society?' Drawing on psychoanalytic, postmodernist and feminist theory, she examines examples from many areas of contemporary art and culture ranging from Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial photography to Madonna's mixture of the religious and the erotic in the song 'Like a Prayer,' from novels including Joyce Rebta-Burditt's The Cracker Factory, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, to films including Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, Wim Wender's Wings of Desire, and Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.

Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene

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Caputi offers a broad theory of obscenity in contemporary American culture by answering the questions 'What is obscenity?' and 'How... Read more

    Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
    Publication Date: 22/02/1994
    ISBN13: 9780847678853, 978-0847678853
    ISBN10: 0847678857

    Number of Pages: 144

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Caputi offers a broad theory of obscenity in contemporary American culture by answering the questions 'What is obscenity?' and 'How does obscenity operate within the confines of our society?' Drawing on psychoanalytic, postmodernist and feminist theory, she examines examples from many areas of contemporary art and culture ranging from Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial photography to Madonna's mixture of the religious and the erotic in the song 'Like a Prayer,' from novels including Joyce Rebta-Burditt's The Cracker Factory, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, to films including Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, Wim Wender's Wings of Desire, and Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.

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