Author: Patricia MacCormack
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: interventions, queer, cinesexuality
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2008-07-23
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754671755
ISBN-13: 9780754671756

"Cinesexuality" explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship, arguing that cinema spectatorship represents a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond dialectics of subject/object and image/meaning; an extraordinary ’cinesexual’ relationship, that encompasses each event of cinema spectatorship beyond gender, hetero- or homosexuality, encouraging all spectators to challenge traditional notions of what elicits pleasure and constitutes desiring subjectivity.Through a variety of cinematic examples, including abstract film, extreme films and films which offer examples