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Tainted love : screening sexual perversion / Darren Kerr, Donna Peberdy.

Contributor(s): Kerr, Darren [editor.] | Peberdy, Donna, 1981- [editor.] | Hester, Helen. Perverting the explicit : Catherine Breillat's visual vocabulary of desire (chapter) [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of the moving imageLondon : I.B. Tauris, 2017Description: 304 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780761961 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Paraphilias in motion pictures | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'363538 Summary: 'Tainted Love' is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversities on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, it challenges the discourses and debates around sexual taboo, moral panics, degeneracy, deviance and disease, which present those who enact such sexualities as modern folk devils. This timely collection brings together leading scholars who draw on a variety of critical approaches including adaptation, performance, cultural studies, queer theory, feminism and philosophy to examine screen representations of controversial sexualities from the weird and wonderful to the debased and debauched.
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'Tainted Love' is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversities on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, it challenges the discourses and debates around sexual taboo, moral panics, degeneracy, deviance and disease, which present those who enact such sexualities as modern folk devils. This timely collection brings together leading scholars who draw on a variety of critical approaches including adaptation, performance, cultural studies, queer theory, feminism and philosophy to examine screen representations of controversial sexualities from the weird and wonderful to the debased and debauched.

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