Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Phallic: "An Object of Terror and Delight"; Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz PART I: FORBIDDEN SPECTATORSHIP AND VISCERAL IMAGERIES 1. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; Rachel Gottesman 2. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; Lorrain Dumenil 3. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to Patriarchy and the Male Gaze; Marion Krautkaher-Ringa 4. The Monstrous Nonheteronormative: A Queer Positioning within American Horror Films By the Male Gaze; Matthew Martin 5. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: The Ethics of the Gaze in Irréversible; Kathleen Scott PART II: PHALLIC AND ANTI-PHALLIC FANTASIES 6. Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity; Finn Ballard 7. 'Look Closer': Sam Mendes' Visions of White Men; Ruth Heholt 8. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX; Sigal Barkai 9. Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of 'Looked-at-ness' Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011); Alexander Sergeant 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte, Or, A Reflection of/on 'Pornographic' Literature and Society; Fanny Delnieppe PART III: BLEEDING MASCULINITIES 11. "There's No Losing It:' Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo; Laura Christiansen 12. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding; James D. Stone 13. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender Bending Muscles in the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; Jacqueline Brady 14. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Francis Pheasant-Kelly PART IV: SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BROTHERS 15. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair; Mira Perampalam 16. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician, and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Brenda S. Gardenour PART V: GAPS AND CRACKS 17. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Marnie; Inbar Shaham 18. Pictura in Arcana: the Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack Lysane Fauvel 19. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or, The Sublimation of Desire; Virginie Thomas