Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

245 Pages·2017·18.07 MB·English

by  Gilad Padva

Intimate Relationships in Cinema,
Literature and Visual Culture
GiladPadva(cid:129)NuritBuchweitz
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Intimate
Relationships in
Cinema, Literature
and Visual Culture
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GiladPadva NuritBuchweitz
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CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Intimacyisoneofthemostcommonthemesincinema,literature,andvisual
culturethatrepresentthehumanexperience.Intimaterelationships,asone
of the most intricate and delicate issues in people’s lives, are spectacularly
sensationalized, dramatized, investigated, and criticized by diverse visual,
cinematic,literal,musical,andartisticmedia.Broadeningthepointsofview
onintimacyanditsperilouspleasures,passionatemanifestations,andmulti-
pleangstsincontemporaryartsandpopularcommunicationsisaninspiring
task. We are most thankful to the contributors of the chapters for their
enlightening insights, creativity, and intellectual motivation. Thanks for
thiswonderfulopportunitytoexplorenew,vibrantperspectivesintheglobal
investigationofgraphicintimacies,visualizedrelationships,negotiatedsex-
ualities,andmediatedtermsofendearment.
WewouldliketothanktheResearchAuthorityatBeitBerlCollegein
Israelforsupportingthe editingofthisbook. WearegratefultoDrAnat
StavansandRonitYedid-ZionfromBeitBerl,andsomanythankstoour
devoted Englisheditor DianaRubanenko.
We are very grateful to our dear and inspiring colleagues and friends
whoencourageourculturalresearch:ProfessorAmosHoffman,Professor
Dafna Lemish, Professor Moshe Zuckermann, Dr Elisabetta Girelli, Avi
Siksik, and Dr Dror Abend-David. We are most grateful to our beloved
families.
OurthankstoLinaAboujiebfromPalgraveMacmillanforherinsight-
fulguidance andencouragement.
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction 1
GiladPadva andNurit Buchweitz
PartI StraightIntimacies andHeterosexualGuilty Pleasures
2 Fifty Shades ofGuilty Pleasure 25
SaraK. HoweandAntonnetRenaeJohnson
3 Vitalitiesand FatalitiesinIntimate Relationships inEtgar
Keret’s GraphicNarratives 37
NuritBuchweitz
4 IntimacyinCrisis:FamilyDysfunctioninIsraeliLiterature
for PreschoolReaders 49
EinatBaramEshel
PartII AdaptedIntimaciesandSpectacular Obscenities
5 An IntimateAdaptation 65
Jelena Borojević
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6 Fellini’s Satyricon: BacchanaliasandSexual Politics
in Imperial Rome andModernItaly 75
JoséMaurício Saldanha-Álvarez
7 Reimagining the 1970s: Romance, Sleazeand Obscenity
in Bombay Cinema 87
AnkitaDeb
PartIII QueerIntimacies andPoliticized Attractions
8 David Wojnarowicz’s Poetics: MagnifyingHomosexual
MaleBodies, ExaltingQueerIntimacies 105
MélanieGrué
9 Marco Berger: Homoaffectivitythrough Cinematic
Queered Continuums 121
William DanielHolcombe
10 Hidden Desires:CinematicRepresentations
of Man/BoyLove 135
Kylo-PatrickR. Hart
11 Girl Meets Girl: SexualSitingsin Lesbian Romantic
Comedies 145
KellyMcWilliam
PartIV GenderedIntimacies andFeminized Carnalities
12 Controlling the Mind for the Body:The
Deintellectualization of Womenwithinthe American
Gothic 159
MatthewE. Martin
CONTENTS ix
13 Beyond the Duality ofIntimacy and Intimidation:
Ladouble vie de Véroniqueandthe Reclamation
of Krzysztof Kieslowski’sEthical Kernelafter 1989 169
Man-tatTerenceLeung
PartV Interracial Intimaciesand EthnicizedIntercourse
14 Utopian Transgressions:Intimate Relationships across
Social Boundaries 185
MiriTalmon
15 The Epistemologyof the Ethnic Closet:Interracial
Intimacy and UnconditionalLovein IanIqbal Rashid’s
A Touch ofPink 199
GiladPadva
PartVI AdvertisedIntimacies andEroticized Pop Music
16 Romantic Relationships andSexuality inHebrew
Advertisements 1967–1977 215
AvivitAgam Dali
17 Vulgar Lyricsin Nigeria’sTwenty-First-Century
Popular Music:St.Janetand Olamide(Badoo) 227
AyokunleOlumuyiwaOmobowale, DaudaAdermi Busari,
MofeyisaraOluwatoyin Omobowale
andOlugbengaSamuelFalase
Index 237
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OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS
DrGiladPadvaisafilmandmediascholarandlecturer.Hismainfieldsof
interest include New Queer Cinema, sexuality studies, men’s studies,
television studies, visual media, popular culture, aesthetics and ethics,
ethnicities,theFrankfurtSchool,Existentialism,MichelFoucault’sphilo-
sophyandqueerart.HeistheauthorofQueerNostalgiainCinemaand
Pop Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-editor (with Nurit
Buchweitz) of the edited volume Sensational Pleasures in Cinema,
Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (Palgrave Macmillan,
2014).Hepublishesextensivelyinpeer-reviewedjournals,editedvolumes
andencyclopedias.HecurrentlyworksforBeitBerlCollegeandheispart
oftheteamoftheNewProgramforMasterofArtsinCulturalStudiesat
the University ofHaifa. Hisemail address is:<[email protected]>
Prof. Nurit Buchweitz is the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural
StudiesatBeitBerlCollegeinIsrael.Sheisanassociateprofessorofcompara-
tive literature. She is the author of Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir
WiezeltierandthePoetryofthe1960s(inHebrew)(HaKibbutzHaMeuchad,
2011), An Officer of Civilzation: the Poetics of Michel Houellebcq (Peter
Lang, 2015), and co-editor of In Other[s] Words: Studies in Hebrew and
Arabic Literature[inHebrew](Resling,2009)andSensationalPleasuresin
Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (with Gilad Padva)
(PalgraveMcmillan,2014).Heremailaddressis:<[email protected]>
DrSaraK.HoweisanAssistantProfessorofEnglishandtheUndergraduate
CreativeWritingCoordinatoratSouthernNewHampshireUniversityinUSA
where she teaches composition, creative writing, and literature courses. She
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receivedherPhDinrhetoric,composition,andtheteachingofEnglishfrom
theUniversityofArizonain2013.Herresearchinterestsincludefanstudies,
rhetoric in popular culture (film, television, and genre fiction), feminist and
psychoanalytictheory,andhorrorandmonstrosity.Herpublicationsinclude
“Teams,Tears,andTestimonials:ARhetoricalReadingoftheTwilightTime
Capsule”inReception:Texts,Readers,Audiences,History(Summer2013).
Her recent article, “Beyond Wounds and Words: The Rhetoric of Scarred
EmbodimentinArrow,”ispartofaforthcomingbookontheCWtelevision
seriesArrow(2017).Heremailaddress:<[email protected]>
Antonnet Renae Johnson is a PhD candidate in rhetoric, composition,
andtheteachingofEnglishattheUniversityofArizonainUSAwhereshe
teaches foundational and advanced composition courses. Her research
interests include tabletop game studies, fan studies and participatory cul-
ture,professionalandtechnicalwriting,criticalpedagogy,andplay.Most
accurately,shemaintainsadedicationtorhetoricinandaroundentertain-
ment (film, television, youtube, board games, music, etc.). She is writing
her dissertation about performance and the (re)construction of identities
in tabletop games. She is the Director of the Usability and Play Testing
Labat the Universityof Arizona, whichshe co-founded.
Dr Einat Baram Eshel is a senior lecturer in Hebrew literature and
children’s literature at Beit Berl College and Levinsky College of
Education inIsrael.She publishes extensively inher fields of research. She
istheauthorofBetweenthePathwayandtheHighway:TheFlourishingofthe
Hebrew Novella in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century [in Hebrew]
(The Hebrew University/Magnes Press, 2001) and Representations of
Reality in Hebrew Haskalah Literature 1857–1881 [in Hebrew]
(HaKibbutz HaMeuchad, 2011). Her email address is: einatbaresh@g
mail.com
Jelena Borojević is a PhD candidate at the Department of English
LanguageandLiterature,UniversityofNoviSad.Herthesisisconcerned
withMythopoeticsintheworksofJ.R.R.Tolkien,PhilipPullmanandJ.K.
Rowling.SheistheEditorinChiefofTheLilithReview,andtheAssistant
Editor for fiction at Arcadia Press. She recently contributed to Critical
Insights:TheHobbit(SalemPress,2016)withherchapter“TheHobbit:A
Mythopoeic Need for Adventure.” Additionally, she is interested in fan
studies,popularculture,andthemodernrepresentationoffairytales.Her
email addressis: [email protected]