Overview
- First academic book about intimate relationships in cinema, literature and visual culture
- Interdisciplinary and sits at the intersection of cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, cinema and photography studies and literature studies
- Analyses diverse intimate pleasures such as inter-generational intimacies, inter-ethnic intimacies, cross-cultural intimacies, and intimate relationships between straights, queer and gay communities
- Presents a multicultural study of past and present representations of intimacies in different countries, societies and ethnic communities
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About this book
This edited volume is an inquiry into the representation of intimate relationships in a diverse array of media including cinema, arts, literature, picture books, advertising and popular music. It examines artistic portrayal of intimate relationships as a subversion of the boundaries between the representable and the non-representable, the real and the surreal, the visceral and the ideal, the embodied and the abstracted, the configured and transfigured. The essays focus on artistic mediation of intimacy in diverse relationships, including heterosexual, same-sex, familial, sibling' , political, and sadomasochistic. The collection offers new interdisciplinary and multicultural perspectives on current trends in the study of popular representations of intimacy; representations that affect and formulate people's most personal inspirations, desires, angsts, dreams and nightmares in an increasingly alienated, industrialized world.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Straight Intimacies and Heterosexual Guilty Pleasures
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Adapted Intimacies and Spectacular Obscenities
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Queer Intimacies and Politicized Attractions
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Gendered Intimacies and Feminized Carnalities
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Interracial Intimacies and Ethnicized Intercourse
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Reviews
“Intimate Relationships recognizes that intimacy is a complex concept that can neither be quantified nor contained within the realm of romantic / erotic love. As a result, Intimate Relationships provides a new definition of intimacy and the manners in which it can be qualified.” (Dr. Dror Abend-David, Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, USA)
“A stunningly original contribution to scholarship on the multi-faceted topic of intimacy … These essays offer new critical perspectives and food for thought. Ambitious in scope, this collection is dazzling and challenging; the variety of approaches and cultures, and the wide choice of primary materials, will fascinate readers wishing to deepen their understanding of this essential aspect of being human.” (Dr Elisabetta Girelli, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, St Andrews University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gilad Padva is a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Beit Berl College and the Open University of Israel. He is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014) and co-editor (with Nurit Buchweitz) of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).
Nurit Buchweitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Beit Berl College, Israel. She is the author of Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir Wiezeltier and the Poetry of the 1960s (2008) and An Officer of Civilization: The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture
Editors: Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55281-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55280-4Published: 19 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85616-2Published: 17 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55281-1Published: 04 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 246
Topics: Film Theory, Gender Studies, Literature, general, Culture and Gender