Constructing Transgressive Sexuality In Screenwriting: The Feiticeiro/a As Character
by LJ Theo /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book approaches the construction of complex and
transgressive ‘pervert’ characters in mainstream (not ‘art’),
adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an
episteme on which to base the construction of characters in
screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of
characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended
re-phrasing of the notion of ‘the pervert’ as Feiticiero/a: a
newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for
complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and
challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an
existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the
scholarly tradition of the ‘linguistic turn’ of continental
philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language
not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The
result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is
brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.
This book approaches the construction of complex and
transgressive ‘pervert’ characters in mainstream (not ‘art’),
adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an
episteme on which to base the construction of characters in
screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of
characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended
re-phrasing of the notion of ‘the pervert’ as Feiticiero/a: a
newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for
complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and
challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an
existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the
scholarly tradition of the ‘linguistic turn’ of continental
philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language
not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The
result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is
brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.
