عنوان

Cinema, pain and pleasure :

(Number (ISBN

0230319386

(Number (ISBN

9780230319387

Number

b424265

Title Proper

Cinema, pain and pleasure :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

consent and the controlled body /

First Statement of Responsibility

Steven Allen, University of Winchester, UK.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

233 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Includes filmography.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Situating the controlled body -- Bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism (BDSM) at the movies -- Body modification: beauty and the pleasures of the modifiable flesh -- Aestheticized pain and the artistic serial killer -- Playing with control -- Choosing torture instead of submission -- Conclusion.

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Text of Note

"The idea that pain can be a pleasure is a troubling one, and yet it informs cultural practices ranging from extreme sports to BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism). This book considers how mainstream cinema borrows heavily from these cultural activities for its imagery, but typically rejects their social motivations founded on masochistic pleasure and an assertion of autonomy. Noting 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. Films addressed include Crash, Fight Club, Saw, Se7en and Sick. Individual chapters focus on the influence of BDSM, body modification, provocative artwork, dangerous games and torture, and collectively they offer an address of how cinema's viscerally dominated, marked and suffering body - the controlled body - destabilizes the pain/pleasure dichotomy, as well as other binaries founded on gender, sexuality and disfigurement/beauty."--Publisher's website.

Bondage (Sexual behavior) in motion pictures.

Pain in motion pictures.

Sadism in motion pictures.

Sadomasochism in motion pictures.

Torture in motion pictures.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Allen, Steven,1967-

Date of Transaction

20130513060029.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

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