Chapter 1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vi
4. Introduction. Queering Heterosexuality in New Transgressive Cinema 1
5. PART I: EXTREME BODIES, EXTREME DESIRE
6. Chapter 1. The New Anglo-American Cinema of Sexual Addiction 9
7. Chapter 2. Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame and Thanatomorphose 25
8. Chapter 3. Feed: A Representation of Feederism or Fatsploitation? 43
9. Chapter 4. Proving their ‘Virility’? Steve McQueen’s Hunger and Transgressive Masculinity 57
10. Chapter 5. Male-Nutrition: Extreme Weight Loss, Socio-Cultural Transgression and the Male Body in Recent American Cinema 73
11. Chapter 6. Surgery, Blood and Patriarchal Sex: Excision and American Mary 89
12. PART II: ADOLESCENCE, AGEING AND QUEER AGENCY
13. Chapter 7. A Child is Being Raped! Homosexual Panic in Mystic River 103
14. Chapter 8. Crash-and-Burn Girls and Culpable Parenthood: Negotiating Sexualisation Discourses in Independent Cinema 119
15. Chapter 9. ‘Please be a good boy’: Challenging Perceptions of Paedophilia in Contemporary US Cinema 131
16. Chapter 10. Nowhere Teens: Following Gregg Araki’s Queer Adolescents through the End of a Century 147
17. Chapter 11. Unsettling Heteronormativity: Abject Age and Transgressive Desire in Notes on a Scandal 161
18. Index 177