3 The Figure in Question: The Transvestite Character as a Narrative Strategy in The Crying Game

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I Identifying Risks
6. 1 After Mulvey: Male Erotic Objectification 13
7. 2 The Inside-out of Masculinity: David Cronenberg's Visceral Pleasures 30
8. 3 The Figure in Question: The Transvestite Character as a Narrative Strategy in The Crying Game 49
9. 4 'Til Death Us Do Part: Cinema's Queer Couples Who Kill 67
10. PART II Untold Risks
11. 5 The Monstrous Child 87
12. 6 Loving the Technological Undead: Cyborg Sex and Necrophilia in Richard Calder's Dead Trilogy 108
13. 7 Post-feminist Futures in Film Nair 126
14. 8 Blood is the Drug: Narcophiliac Vampires in Recent Women's Fiction 143
15. PART III Marked Risks
16. 9 Only Skin Deep? Tattooing, Piercing and the Transgressive Body 165
17. 10 Cicciolina and the Dynamics of Transgression and Abjection in Explicit Sex Films 188
18. 11 Symptoms of AIDS in Contemporary Film: Mortal Anxiety in an Age of Sexual Panic 210
19. Notes on Contributors 226
20. Index 229