Cinema, Pain and Pleasure: Consent and the Controlled Body by Steven Allen (Engl

Description: Cinema, Pain and Pleasure by Steven Allen From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinemas representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description From Tattoo to Saw, this book considers mainstream cinemas representation of the viscerally dominated and marked body. Examining a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change. Author Biography STEVEN ALLEN is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Winchester, UK, where he is also Programme Director for MA Cultural Studies. He has published on representations of landscapes, cultural memory and the body, as well as animation. He is co-editor of Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts (2012). Table of Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Situating the Controlled Body Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadomasochism (BDSM) at the Movies Body Modification: Beauty and the Pleasures of the Modifiable Flesh Aestheticized Pain and the Artistic Serial Killer Playing with Control Choosing Torture Instead of Submission Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Filmography Television Programmes Index Review Really excellent: very well written and extremely well informed, both about BDSM and movies. The opening chapter very usefully disposes of some standard psychoanalytic approaches to BDSM, and this greatly helps to situate the ensuing discussions of the controlled body in films in a refreshingly different context from that in which this subject is still all too often discussed. - Julian Petley, Brunel University, UKSteven Allens Cinema, Pain and Pleasure is sensational: it deals with extreme sensory experiences, it is controversial and provocative and it is very, very good. It requires a mind as calm, lucid and scalpel-like as Allens to write so well about material like this. He is able to embrace a feeling for the pleasures of pain, domination and submission, and the significance of those pleasures, without falling into mere polemics or political incorrectness. This is an astonishingly illuminating piece of work that keeps its head and maintains its visceral sensitivity, wonderfully close to and wonderfully clear-eyed about the issues and films it analyses.Richard Dyer, Kings College London, UK Long Description The idea that pain can be a pleasure is a troubling one, and yet it informs cultural practices ranging from extreme sports to BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadomasochism). This book considers how mainstream cinema borrows heavily from these cultural activities for its imagery, but typically rejects their social motivations founded on masochistic pleasure and an assertion of autonomy. Noting a shift in the late twentieth century to narratives that highlight subjection, endurance and willed-acquiescence, it probes the confluence of pain, pleasure and consent to analyse the implications of the change. Films addressed include Crash, Fight Club, Saw, Se7en and Sick. Individual chapters focus on the influence of BDSM, body modification, provocative artwork, dangerous games and torture, and collectively they offer an address of how cinemas viscerally dominated, marked and suffering body the controlled body destabilizes the pain/pleasure dichotomy, as well as other binaries founded on gender, sexuality and disfigurement/beauty. Review Quote Really excellent: very well written and extremely well informed, both about BDSM and movies. The opening chapter very usefully disposes of some standard psychoanalytic approaches to BDSM, and this greatly helps to situate the ensuing discussions of the controlled body in films in a refreshingly different context from that in which this subject is still all too often discussed. - Julian Petley, Brunel University, UK Description for Bookstore A provocative investigation of mainstream cinemas depiction of pain and control (BDSM, body modification, murder scenes, extreme sports and torture) and notions of consent that frame them as pleasure Details ISBN0230319386 Author Steven Allen Short Title CINEMA PAIN & PLEASURE Language English ISBN-10 0230319386 ISBN-13 9780230319387 Media Book Format Hardcover Residence US Birth 1945 Year 2013 Publication Date 2013-03-28 Pages 233 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Consent and the Controlled Body Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2013-03-28 AU Release Date 2013-03-28 NZ Release Date 2013-03-28 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Alternative 9781349339891 DEWEY 791.436353 Illustrations X, 233 p. 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