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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.
Contents
A Prelude to Perversion Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy
Too Close for Comfort: Mainstream Perversion, Marginal Tastes
2. 'Does This Look Sexual To You?': Neoliberal Culture and Everyday Perversion Martin Fradley
3. Provocative Performances of Perversion Donna Peberdy
'Keep it to yourself': Shameful Masturbation in American Film Wickham Clayton
Reviled Bodies: Fantasies, Realities and the Boundaries of the Explicit
2. 'Straight' Necrophilia as a 'Queer' Perversion in Lynne Stopkewich's Kissed Lisa Downing
3. The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fantasma and Erotomania John Mercer
4. Perverting the Explicit: Catherine Breillat's Visual Vocabulary of Desire Helen Hester
Coming of Age: Generational Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons
5. Larry Clark's Sex Education: Teenage Sexuality and the Denial of Denial Sarah Arnold
6. The Age of Perversion: L'ennui, Erotic Combat and Intergenerational Existentialism Beth Johnson
7. Mapping the Adolescent Male Body: Queerness, Paedophilia and Perversion in L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin Sarah Sinwell
8. A Mother's Love Cannot be Denied: Ma Mère Clarissa Smith
Sexual Infidelity: Adapting the Deviant, Re-imagining the Perverse
9. Perverting the Marquis de Sade Sarah Harman
10. 'Something Sweet': Little Children, the Sex Offender and Emma Bovary's Eyes Guy Barefoot
11. Let the Right One In and the Wrong One Go: Erasing the Paedophile in Let the Right One In Darren Kerr
