Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture
About this book
Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.
Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism, this book vigorously questions and problematizes numerous artistic, aesthetic, technological, naïve, and macabre manipulations of body parts for various purposes. A diverse team of authors explore how scribing human traits to limbs, eyes, brains, genitalia, hearts, and other inner organs is grotesque and aesthetic, repealing and appealing, intimidating and intimate, rude and enjoyable, material and spiritual, surprising and mundane. Personified organs are interrelated with bodily integrity, visceral aesthetics, distorted nature, social anxiety and acceptability, cultural classifications and hierarchies, and dissident innovativeness andradicalism.
This interdisciplinary volume involves body studies; cinema, television, and media studies; literature studies; cultural, intercultural, and countercultural studies; mythology and folklore studies; gender, sexuality, trans and queer studies; ethnicities and postcolonialism; and art history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Personified Body Parts and Eccentric Organs with a Spectacularly Quirky Mind of Their Own
- Part I Erotically Charged Body Parts and Personified Sex Organs
- Part II Amputated Minds of Their Own
- Part III Disembodied Consciousness and Corporeal Souls
- Part IV Self-Personification of One’s Own Body Parts
- Part V Autonomous Eyes and Embodied Surveillance
- Index