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Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body
Steven Allen
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Description for Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body
Hardcover. From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change.
From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinema's representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230319387
SKU
V9780230319387
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99-15
About Steven Allen
STEVEN ALLEN is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he is also Programme Director for MA Cultural Studies. He has published on representations of landscapes, cultural memory and the body, as well as animation. He is co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts (2012).
Reviews for Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body
'Really excellent: very well written and extremely well informed, both about BDSM and movies. The opening chapter very usefully disposes of some 'standard' psychoanalytic approaches to BDSM, and this greatly helps to situate the ensuing discussions of the controlled body in films in a refreshingly different context from that in which this subject is still all too often discussed.' - ... Read more