In this study of Alfred Hitchcock's two television series, Jan Olsson demonstrates how Hitchcock created a personal brand built on his large body, gastronomical proclivities, and the manipulation of bodies and food, which allowed him to mark his creative oeuvre as strictly his o…
In this study of Alfred Hitchcock's two television series, Jan Olsson demonstrates how Hitchcock created a personal brand built on his large body, gastronomical proclivities, and the manipulation of bodies and food, which allowed him to mark his creative oeuvre as strictly his o…
A critical theorization of fatness -- The de-masculinized fat male -- Female fatness as non-normative femininity -- The funny fat body: Slapstick and gross-out -- The fat eater: Food and eating -- The fat outsider. "Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubi…
Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic represen…
"Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized 'war against the obesity epidemic'. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic represent…
"Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized ''war against the obesity epidemic''. In Fat on Film, Barbara Plotz provides a critical analysis of the cinematic represe…
In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance…
Surplus Bodies, Vanishing Women: Conjuring, Imperialism, and the Rhetoric of Disappearance, 1851-1901 -- Insubstantial Media: Ectoplasm, Exposure, and the Stillbirth of Film -- Mother Knows Best: Magic and Matricide -- Violent Vanishings: Hitchcock, Harlan, and the Politics of P…
With the help of mirrors, trap doors, elevators, photographs, and film, women vanish and return in increasingly spectacular ways throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Karen Beckman tracks the proliferation of this elusive figure, the vanishing woman, from her genesi…
Disappearing women as a persistent trope from nineteenth-century magic through contemporary theory, film, and psychoanalysis.
Vanishing women: magic, film, and feminism
Disappearing women as a persistent trope from nineteenth-century magic through contemporary theory, film, and psychoanalysis.
