"A strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating di…
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines--including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psy…
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines--including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psy…
Suffering/triumph -- Masochism/masculinity -- Content/form -- Crucifixion/representation.
"Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines--including religious studies, gender and queer studies, ps…
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines--including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psy…
La 4e de couverture indique : "Being an integral element of how humans interact with one another, violence, however disruptive, often also manifests itself as an ordering force. In this collection of essays, the contributing authors explore this particular aspect of violence fro…
"This cross-disciplinary study deploys the concept of "spectral realism," devised by the author, to think about the ethical implications of the representation of violence in various art mediums (literature, film, and visual arts). Spectral realism, a way of dealing with the unsa…