ISBN:
9781317007395
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Richardson, Niall Transgressive Bodies : Representations in Film and Popular Culture
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Abnormalities, Human..
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Human body-Social aspects..
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Human body in popular culture..
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Human body in motion pictures..
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People with disabilities in motion pictures
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The "Freak" Body: Nature versus Culture? -- Part I Hyper-Muscular Bodies -- 1 'Wow Dude! You're a Monster!' The Politics of Bigorexia -- 2 Flex Rated! Hyper-Muscular Bodies: Resistance or Erotic Spectacle? -- Part II Fat Bodies -- Introduction to Part II Fat -- 3 'But it's Only a Fat Suit!' Representing "Fake" Fat in Popular Culture -- 4 'Watch me Grow!' Fat Admiration, Stuffing and Feederism -- Part III Transsexed Bodies -- Introduction to Part III Transsexuality -- 5 Finding the Voice I Want to Use: Femininity, Gentility and TransAmerica -- 6 Chicks with Dicks and Hunks with Pussies: Eroticising the Pre-Op Transsexual Body -- Part IV Disabled Bodies -- Introduction to Part IV Disability -- 7 There's Something About "Crip" Bodies: Contemporary Representations of Disability in the Films of the Farrelly Brothers and Todd Solondz -- 8 Becoming Whole: Amputees, Devotees and Self-Demand Amputation -- Conclusion Strategies of Containment? -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index.
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