... an idea of moviegoing as spectacular escapism. This chapter explores politics and realism in Hollywood films, the emergence of films tackling social problems, science fiction films and Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Eisenhower Dwight D Truman Harry S ‘Hollywood Ten...

... to link political economy to traditional studies of gender. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Smallville exist within the broad conceptual terrain of genre and seriality. By ‘reading’ Buffy's body, among others, this chapter explores the manner in which the teen body...

... of the image can be used to clarify the significance of the tacit references that Nancy's ontology makes regarding politics. Christianity image Plato time affect body praxis relation sensible Debord Guy Marx Rousseau Jean Jacques Situationism social ontology alienation capital capitalism...

...This chapter explores the theme of the becoming of the body through metamorphosis in Marie Darrieussecq’s writing, analysing the interweaving of Deleuzian traces with contemporary feminist thinkers Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti’s theories of performativity and parody. It then explores...

...Following a long tradition of objectification, twentieth-century French feminism has often sought to liberate the female body from the confines of patriarchal logos and to inscribe its rhythms in writing. But how has the promotion of ‘women’s writing’ in such thought and literature evolved...

... it in parallel with a number of the book’s earlier series I will show how psychoanalysis underpins the larger project. constructivism philosophical or ontological sense body erogenous zones partial surfaces Lacan and Lacanian school J Leclaire S Oedipus complex structuralism and ‘post structuralism’ art...

...There are many ways to view the genesis of sense in The Logic of Sense. One way that has been emphasised in the secondary literature is as the emergence of consciousness from the body’s affects.1 There is, however, a more interesting and important genesis at stake beneath this one. If the first...

...This chapter explores how Gilles Deleuze's critical energy and concepts can be marshalled into challenging the totalising notions of masculinity and the body. It offers an interpretation of the case of Daniel Paul Schreber as a DeleuzoGuattarian becoming-minoritarian/woman/queer that shattered...

... elaborates the concept of the action hero's ‘narrative of becoming’ that articulates the protagonist's physical and emotional trajectory towards achieving full occupation of the heroic action body. This narrative of becoming is an integral part of the main narrative thrust that moves the ?lm towards its...

... as sexually provocative and overtly erotic, Bilbao is in fact an abstract tale about the disenchantment with the body, which is quite literally turned into a lifeless, undesirable and anti-erotic object. Almodóvar Pedro Bigas Luna Josep Joan Bilbao body censorship Coromina Pepón democracy female body...

...A phenomenological reading of the body in Beckett – which explores connections between linguistic signification, innovation and bodily orientation – can be applied to other writers, artists and movements. The book’s conclusion suggests ways in which embodied agency reveals itself in late modernism...

... Avenging Angelo Burke 2002 D Tox Gillespie 2002 men patriarchy sex crime genre Hollywood masculinity Michael Caine The Italian Job Get Carter film remake body reboot cult film Sylvester Stallone Mark Wahlberg With the increasing global popularity of British romantic comedies since the 1990s...

... human body the Islam Al e Ahmad Jalal Malcolm X Shariati Ali maimed bodies culture ihram memory Hertzog Gilles nationalism politics ‘Sarajevo Thought Well’ Hertzog Gilles soft Islamism habitual body the pride sacrifice visibility Ibrāhīm Prophet geography Ibrišimović Nedžad...

...: it means to be constantly shaken by psychological states, by the body’s agitation. In Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Jeanne is besieged by the anticipation and the over-organisation of the mundane. Chores (cooking, cleaning, washing) follow one another...

... form and matter in generation can be construed through Aristotle’s account of the soul’s relation to body and his account of different ways of being acted upon to further the case for matter’s independent power and intimacy with form in natural generation and in natural substance. Bianchi Emanuela...

... differently. Sovereignty is never contained within the lonely figure of a solitary man’s body but rather made manifest through an engagement with the world and, particularly, the organic with the machine, the “natural” with the “artificial”. This is a reading which is opposed to the dominant influence...

...This book provides a sustained, formalist and theoretically-informed reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare’s history plays, including Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, King John, and the Henry IV plays. Starting with a literary critical analysis...

... been on a winding path through philosophical thought from Aristotle, Newton, Descartes and Kant where place was gradually subsumed by space. But by returning to Aristotle’s premise of the bound relationship between place and the body, the resurrection of place is enabled through Kant, Whiteread...

... for the protagonists, viewers, diegetic truth-telling machines, and the film itself. Close readings of Rendition (Gavin Hood, 2007) and Body of Lies (Ridley Scott, 2008) explore how the films address this key visual metaphor. Contemporary violence and the mediated forms in which...

... Grdešić Maša Paskin Willa racial representations Sepinwall Alan Woods Faye FUBU For Us and By Us Holmes Anna James Kendra Ryan Maureen VanDerWerff Emily Carroll Rebecca Coates Ta Nehisi Insecure Rae Issa Rhimes Shonda Watson Elwood Obaro Tomi Seitz Matt Zoller body politics Mills Brett...