Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture (1) (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Synopsis

Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism, this book vigorously questions and problematizes numerous artistic, aesthetic, technological, naïve, and macabre manipulations of body parts for various purposes. A diverse team of authors explore how scribing human traits to limbs, eyes, brains, genitalia, hearts, and other inner organs is grotesque and aesthetic, repealing and appealing, intimidating and intimate, rude and enjoyable, material and spiritual, surprising and mundane. Personified organs are interrelated with bodily integrity, visceral aesthetics, distorted nature, social anxiety and acceptability, cultural classifications and hierarchies, and dissident innovativeness andradicalism.This interdisciplinary volume involves body studies; cinema, television, and media studies; literature studies; cultural, intercultural, and countercultural studies; mythology and folklore studies; gender, sexuality, trans and queer studies; ethnicities and postcolonialism; and art history.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

286 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040331040

Related ISBNs:

9781003541882, 9781032892351, 9781040331002

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

04/17/25

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Gilad Padva and Yair Koren-Maimon

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Reference, Art and Architecture, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Gilad Padva

Edited by:

Yair Koren-Maimon