Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy are senior lecturers in film and television at Southampton Solent University, UK. Darren is the co-editor of Hard to Swallow: Hardcore Pornography on Screen (2012). Donna is the author of Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (2011).

• A Prelude to Perversion Darren Kerr and Donna PeberdyToo Close for Comfort: Mainstream Perversion, Marginal Tastes2.‘Does This Look Sexual To You?’: Neoliberal Culture and Everyday Perversion Martin Fradley3.Provocative Performances of Perversion Donna Peberdy‘Keep it to yourself’: Shameful Masturbation in American Film Wickham ClaytonReviled Bodies: Fantasies, Realities and the Boundaries of the Explicit2.‘Straight’ Necrophilia as a ‘Queer’ Perversion in Lynne Stopkewich’s Kissed Lisa Downing3.The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: O Fantasma and Erotomania John Mercer4.Perverting the Explicit: Catherine Breillat’s Visual Vocabulary of Desire Helen HesterComing of Age: Generational Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons5.Larry Clark’s Sex Education: Teenage Sexuality and the Denial of Denial Sarah Arnold 6.The Age of Perversion: L’ennui, Erotic Combat and Intergenerational Existentialism Beth Johnson 7.Mapping the Adolescent Male Body: Queerness, Paedophilia and Perversion in L.I.E. and Mysterious Skin Sarah Sinwell8.A Mother’s Love Cannot be Denied: Ma Mère Clarissa SmithSexual Infidelity: Adapting the Deviant, Re-imagining the Perverse9.Perverting the Marquis de Sade Sarah Harman10.‘Something Sweet’: Little Children, the Sex Offender and Emma Bovary’s Eyes Guy Barefoot11.Let the Right One In and the Wrong One Go: Erasing the Paedophile in Let the Right One In Darren Kerr

'In the present media moment, sexual difference and deviance are respectively celebrated and vilified like never before. This volume, appearing at such a critical juncture with a laudable international and historical purview, approaches its noisy subject soberly and intelligently.' - Mattias Frey, University of Kent; author of Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture, 'Fearless, unnerving and provocative, Tainted Love is every cinephile's dream guide to the perverse politics of some of the most transgressive films ever made.' - I. Q. Hunter, De Montfort University; author of Cult Film as a Guide to Film and British Trash Cinema, 'This new collection of essays on screening sexual perversion examines the cinematic representation of perverse sexual desire with the intent of illuminating how film culture negotiates and illuminates sexual transgression. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of sexual representation in contemporary film culture.' - Brian McNair, Queensland University of Technology; author of Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire and Mediated Sex: Pornography and Postmodern Culture