Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

Rachel Gottesman, University of Haifa, IsraelLorraine Dumenil, University Paris Sorbonne-Paris 3, FranceMarion Krauthaker, University of Sunderland, UKMathew Martin, Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, USAKathleen Scott, University of St Andrews, UKFinn Ballard, Historian, GermanyRuth Heholt, Falmouth University, UKSigal Barkai, Beit Berl College, IsraelAlexander Sergeant, King's College, London, UKFanny Delnieppe, University of Avignon, FranceLaura Christiansen, College of Staten Island (CUNY), USAJames Stone, University of New Mexico, USAJacqueline Brady, Kingsborough Community College (CUNY), USAFrances Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton, UKMeera Perampalam, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, FranceBrenda Gardenour Walter, Saint Louis College of Pharmacy, USA Inbar Shaham, Open University, IsraelLysane A. Fauvel, Southwestern University, USAVirginie Thomas, English Teacher, Chambéry, France

• Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Phallic: "An Object of Terror and Delight"; Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz PART I: FORBIDDEN SPECTATORSHIP AND VISCERAL IMAGERIES 1. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; Rachel Gottesman 2. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; Lorrain Dumenil 3. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to Patriarchy and the Male Gaze; Marion Krautkaher-Ringa 4. The Monstrous Nonheteronormative: A Queer Positioning within American Horror Films By the Male Gaze; Matthew Martin 5. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: The Ethics of the Gaze in Irréversible; Kathleen Scott PART II: PHALLIC AND ANTI-PHALLIC FANTASIES 6. Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity; Finn Ballard 7. 'Look Closer': Sam Mendes' Visions of White Men; Ruth Heholt 8. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX; Sigal Barkai 9. Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of 'Looked-at-ness' Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011); Alexander Sergeant 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte, Or, A Reflection of/on 'Pornographic' Literature and Society; Fanny Delnieppe PART III: BLEEDING MASCULINITIES 11. "There's No Losing It:' Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo; Laura Christiansen 12. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding; James D. Stone 13. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender Bending Muscles in the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; Jacqueline Brady 14. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Francis Pheasant-Kelly PART IV: SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BROTHERS 15. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair; Mira Perampalam 16. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician, and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Brenda S. Gardenour PART V: GAPSAND CRACKS 17. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Marnie; Inbar Shaham 18. Pictura in Arcana: the Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack Lysane Fauvel 19. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or, The Sublimation of Desire; Virginie Thomas