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Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

The Phallic Eye

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Gilad Padva

    1. Communication Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  2. Nurit Buchweitz

    1. Academic Council of the Faculty of Culture and Society, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction The Phallic: “An Object of Terror and Delight”

      • Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz
      Pages 1-18

  3. Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology

      • Rachel Gottesman
      Pages 21-34

    3. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia

      • Lorraine Dumenil
      Pages 35-49

    4. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette’s Challenge to the Male Gaze

      • Marion Krauthaker-Ringa
      Pages 50-61

    5. The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze

      • Matthew Martin
      Pages 62-73

    6. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and the Phallic Gaze in Irréversible

      • Kathleen Scott
      Pages 74-87

  6. Surveillance and Big Brothers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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About this book

This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Communication Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    Gilad Padva

  • Academic Council of the Faculty of Culture and Society, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

    Nurit Buchweitz

About the editors

Rachel Gottesman, University of Haifa, Israel Lorraine Dumenil, University Paris Sorbonne-Paris 3, France Marion Krauthaker, University of Sunderland, UK Mathew Martin, Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, USA Kathleen Scott, University of St Andrews, UK Finn Ballard, Historian, Germany Ruth Heholt, Falmouth University, UK Sigal Barkai, Beit Berl College, Israel Alexander Sergeant, King's College, London, UK Fanny Delnieppe, University of Avignon, France Laura Christiansen, College of Staten Island (CUNY), USA James Stone, University of New Mexico, USA Jacqueline Brady, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), USA Frances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UK Meera Perampalam, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France Brenda Gardenour Walter, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, USA Inbar Shaham, Open University, Israel Lysane A. Fauvel, Southwestern University, USA Virginie Thomas, English Teacher, Chambéry, France

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