Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction The Phallic: “An Object of Terror and Delight”

      • Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz

      Pages 1-18

3. Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology

      • Rachel Gottesman

      Pages 21-34

   3. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia

      • Lorraine Dumenil

      Pages 35-49

   4. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette’s Challenge to the Male Gaze

      • Marion Krauthaker-Ringa

      Pages 50-61

   5. The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze

      • Matthew Martin

      Pages 62-73

   6. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and the Phallic Gaze in Irréversible

      • Kathleen Scott

      Pages 74-87

4. Phallic and Anti-Phallic Fantasies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Transcendental Gazes: Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity

      • Finn Jackson Ballard

      Pages 91-103

   3. “Look Closer”: Sam Mendes’s Visions of White Men

      • Ruth Heholt

      Pages 104-114

   4. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX

      • Sigal Barkai

      Pages 115-126

   5. Zack Snyder’s Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of “Looked-at-ness” Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011)

      • Alexander Sergeant

      Pages 127-139

   6. In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas’s Charlotte or A Reflection of/on “Pornographic” Literature and Society

      • Fanny Delnieppe

      Pages 140-154

5. Bleeding Masculinities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. ‘There’s No Losing It”: Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo

      • Laura Christiansen

      Pages 157-168

   3. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding

      • James D. Stone

      Pages 169-179

   4. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender-Bending Muscles of the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson

      • Jacqueline Brady

      Pages 180-194

   5. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema

      • Frances Pheasant-Kelly

      Pages 195-212

6. Surveillance and Big Brothers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.

• cinema
• culture
• gender
• photography
• politics
• society
• Visual Culture

• Communication Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel

  Gilad Padva

• Academic Council of the Faculty of Culture and Society, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

  Nurit Buchweitz

Rachel Gottesman, University of Haifa, Israel Lorraine Dumenil, University Paris Sorbonne-Paris 3, France Marion Krauthaker, University of Sunderland, UK Mathew Martin, Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, USA Kathleen Scott, University of St Andrews, UK Finn Ballard, Historian, Germany Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University, UK Sigal Barkai, Beit Berl College, Israel Alexander Sergeant, King's College, London, UK Fanny Delnieppe, University of Avignon, France Laura Christiansen, College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA James Stone, University of New Mexico, USA Jacqueline Brady, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), USA Frances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK Meera Perampalam, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France Brenda Gardenour Walter, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, USA Inbar Shaham, Open University, Israel Lysane A. Fauvel, Southwestern University, USA Virginie Thomas, English Teacher, Chambéry, France

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