Ruth McPhee

Female Masochism in Film (eBook, ePUB)

Sexuality, Ethics and Aesthetics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects, to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality, thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve, which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317135999
• Artikelnr.: 49353365

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Ruth McPhee

Inhaltsangabe

Female Masochism in Film

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'This trenchant and beautiful book draws attention to a body of recent films that treat female masochism and in so doing it reconsiders their politics. Grounding her thinking in psychoanalytic and Deleuzian discussions of masochism, Ruth McPhee moves on to illustrate the recognition of multiple subject positions and desires found in recent cinema. In her brilliant readings of films from Breaking the Waves through to Sleeping Beauty, new understanding emerges of cinema's engagement with a heterosexuality concentrated upon masochistic pleasures.' Emma Wilson, University of Cambridge, UK