Screening the Dark Side of Love
From Euro-Horror to American Cinema
Authors: Ritzenhoff, Karen A., Randell, Karen
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- About this book
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How can love be understood globally as a problematic transgression rather than the narrative of "happy endings" that Hollywood has offered? The contributors utilize varying methodologies of textual analysis, psychoanalytic models, and cultural critique and engage with a broad range of films to explore issues of gender identity and spectatorship.
- About the authors
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Karen Randell is the program leader in Film and Television in the School of Media at Southampton Solent University.
- Reviews
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"This collection explores the complex relationship between love and sex . . . The essays fully engage the subject, examining films in relationship to violence, performative spectatorship, censorship, race, physical disability, and domestic violence . . . [They] problematize notions of sexuality and ask provocative questions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Whip and the Body: Sex, Violence, and Performative Spectatorship in Euro-Horror S&M Cinema
Pages 1-17
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Re-imagining Censorship as “Reel” Mutilation: Why not Release a G-Rated Version of David Cronenberg’s Crash?
Pages 19-31
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Antichrist: Lost Children, Love, and the Fear of Excess
Pages 33-46
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Black Bucks and Don Juans: In the Cut’s Seductive Mythologies of Race and Sex
Pages 47-67
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Mad Love: The Anxiety of Difference in the Films of Lon Chaney Sr.
Pages 69-81
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Screening the Dark Side of Love
- Book Subtitle
- From Euro-Horror to American Cinema
- Authors
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- Karen A. Ritzenhoff
- Karen Randell
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Karen Randell
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-09663-0
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137096630
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-34154-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-34440-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 256
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations
- Topics
