Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film
Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of f...
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| description | Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts. By employing Sade’s controversial body-oriented philosophy within film analysis, this book provides a new understanding of notions of pain, pleasure, and the representation of the transgressive body in film. Whereas many analyses have used theory to excuse and thus dilute the power of sexual and violent images, the author has here sought to examine cinematic representations of human relations as unflinchingly as Sade did in his novels. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-226652017-01-30T12:32:55Z Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film Hallam, Lindsay Since their publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts. By employing Sade’s controversial body-oriented philosophy within film analysis, this book provides a new understanding of notions of pain, pleasure, and the representation of the transgressive body in film. Whereas many analyses have used theory to excuse and thus dilute the power of sexual and violent images, the author has here sought to examine cinematic representations of human relations as unflinchingly as Sade did in his novels. 2012 Book http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22665 McFarland restricted |
| spellingShingle | Hallam, Lindsay Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title | Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title_full | Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title_fullStr | Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title_full_unstemmed | Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title_short | Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film |
| title_sort | screening the marquis de sade: pleasure, pain and the transgressive body in film |
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