Corporeality and culture : Bodies in movement / edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wanggren and Kamillea Aghtan
Imprint
Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2015
Descript
xv, 192 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Section I : Movements of violence and corollaries of sight -- Conversing 'trina cheile' -- Moved to tears: Performance, affect, becoming -- Mobilising affect: Somatic empathy and the cinematic body in distress -- Section II : Monsters, margins and corporealising choreographies -- Making monsters: Bio-engineering and visual arts practice -- The animated aesthetics of cultured steak -- The animation of the cyborg trope: Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell -- Embodied Platonisms: the erotic choreographies of Angela Carter and John Cameron Mitchell -- Section III : Political technologies of embodiment -- Fragments of a great confusion: Abjection, subjectivity, and the body in Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone -- Sex in stasis, bodies in becoming: The monstrous body and the eroticisation of the scientific gaze -- Bodies in movement: On humanimality in narratives about the Third Reich -- Existence - in itself: Emily dickinson and the movement to absence in the poetic body