Perversion
Excess and Resistance in Feminised Bodies: David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Jean Baudrillard’s Seduction
An exploration of the politics of representation, in particular, notions of excess and resistance, as they are worked through in both Baudrillard's Seduction and Cronenberg's
Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz’s Poetics of Cinema
Both Ruiz's writings and his cinema are underpinned by a truly unique, radical and perverse aesthetic
A Kind of (Perverse) Loving: The Gothic Horror Films of Joe D’Amato
Mendik digs deep into the world of European trash cinema to bring to the surface the extreme films of Joe D'Amato and their unique psychosexual
Hot, Hard Cocks and Tight, Tight Unlubricated Assholes: Transgression, Sexual Ambiguity and “Perverse” Pleasures in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus
If certain body parts and functions are coded as normal and acceptable, Sargeant examines a film that turns these presuppositions on their head
Perversion – An Introduction
An introduction to the concept of the "perverse" and to this special spotlight on perversion within cinema, representation, and theory
Whips and Bodies: The Sadean Cinematic Text
Hallam examines the paradigms of sadism and masochism and traces their dramatisation in cinema