Tainted love : screening sexual perversion
Darren Kerr (Editor), Donna Peberdy (Editor)
This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, Tainted Love 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. Chapters explore provocative performances of hysteria and sexual obsession, 'everyday' perversion in neoliberal culture, the radical potential of sadomasochism, adolescent sexuality in the films of Larry Clark, intergenerational sex and incestuous relations in French cinema, sexual obsession in gay cinema, the straightness of necrophilia, the presentation of the paedophile, Swedish Erotica's 'good sex' and re-imagining the Marquis de Sade from film to slash fiction. In order to move past binary distinctions of good and bad, normal and abnormal, moral and immoral, Tainted Love seeks to critically interrogate perverse sexualities and sexual perversion on screen
x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781780761954, 9781780761961, 1780761953, 1780761961
1005124863
Straight necrophilia as a queer perversion in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed / Lisa Downing
The love that dare not speak its name: O Fantasma and erotomania / John Mercer
Perverting the explicit: Catherine Breillat's visual vocabulary of desire / Helen Hester
From sexual perversion to social trauma: titillation, terrorism and Italian erotic cinema during the anni di piombo / Xavier Mendik
A dangerous method: provocative performances of perversion / Donna Peberdy
Normalising masochism: assimilating sexual perversion in Secretary / Caroline Walters
Smutty Swedes: sex films, pornography and 'good sex' / Susanna Paasonen
'Does this look sexual to you?' Neoliberal culture and everyday perversion in recent cinema / Martin Fradley
Larry Clark's sex education: adolescent sexuality and the denial of denial / Sarah Arnold
The age of perversion: L'ennui, erotic combot and intergenerational existentialism / Beth Johnson
A mother's love cannot be denied: Ma mére / Clarissa Smith
Perverting the Marquis de Sade in Quills / Sarah Taylor-Harmon
'Something sweet': Little Children, the sex offender and Emma Bovary's eyes / Guy Barefoot
Let the Right One In and the wrong one go: paedophilia and film culture / Darren Kerr