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…
This work comprises a collection of influential readings in feminist theory. It is divided into four sections: "Reading the Body"; "Bodies in Production"; "The Body Speaks"; and "Body on Stage".
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.
Le cinéma peuple notre imaginaire de figures, de figurines et de fétiches. Sans trêve, il travaille les mêmes prototypes - surtout, d'ailleurs, lorsqu'il approfondit son rapport au réel. Comment rendre compte de ces effets de présence si caractéristiques et pourtant si divers ? …
Cet ouvrage essaie d'ouvrir à un champ paradoxalement négligé par l'analyse et propose quelques instruments nécessaires à l'appréhension des phénomènes figuratifs propres au cinéma.
"Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and East…
"Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and East…
"Bringing together a range of theoretical and critical approaches, this edited collection is the first book to examine representations of the body in Eastern European and Russian cinema after the Second World War. Drawing on the history of the region, as well as Western and East…