Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic : : The Beautiful, Sexual Arousal, and Laughter / / Aaron Kerner.
Examines the cinematic strategies that elicit visceral pleasure in the face of content that is crass, politically problematic, or unethicalDiscusses the ways in which the cinematic elicits pleasurable sensationsEmphasizes the pleasure drawn from abject contentFocuses squarely on the visceral experie...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Abject Pleasures in the Cinematic: A Taxonomy of Cinematic Strategies for Eliciting Pleasure
- PART 1
- 2 On the Beautiful
- 3 Neo-Giallo: “It’s beautiful, it’s beautiful, it’s beautiful,” the Affective Experience in Suspiria
- 4 Musicality: Poetic Ruptures in Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, and Chris Cunningham/Björk’s Music Video “All Is Full of Love”
- PART 2
- 5 On Sexual Arousal
- 6 Pornography: Erotic Disavowal, Regressive Content, and the Chikan (Sub-)Genre
- 7 Romance: The Handmaiden and its Arousing Spectacles
- PART 3
- 8 On Laughter
- 9 Body Humor: Dick Pics in Cringe Comedy and the Carnivalesque Grotesque Body
- 10 Conclusion: The Limitation of Theories of Affect
- Bibliography
- Media-ography
- Index