Screening The Marquis De Sade: Pleasure, Pain And The Transgressive Body In Film
by Lindsay Anne Hallam /
2011 / English / EPUB
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Since its publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have
challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless
physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic
study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis
de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts. By employing
Sade's controversial bodily-oriented philosophy within film
analysis, this book provides a new understanding of notions of
pain, pleasure, and the representation of the transgressive body in
film. Whereas many analyses use theory to excuse and thus dilute
the power of sexual and violent images, the application is
deliberately transgressive and confrontational, seeking to examine
cinematic representations of human relations as unflinchingly as
Sade did in his novels.
Since its publication, the works of the Marquis de Sade have
challenged the reading public with a philosophy of relentless
physical transgression. This is the first book-length academic
study by a single author that applies the philosophy of the Marquis
de Sade to the analysis of a wide array of film texts. By employing
Sade's controversial bodily-oriented philosophy within film
analysis, this book provides a new understanding of notions of
pain, pleasure, and the representation of the transgressive body in
film. Whereas many analyses use theory to excuse and thus dilute
the power of sexual and violent images, the application is
deliberately transgressive and confrontational, seeking to examine
cinematic representations of human relations as unflinchingly as
Sade did in his novels.
