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american psycho
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Author_Linda S. Kauffman
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computers
cultural studies
cyberspace
david cronenberg
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fantasy and art
fiction
film
gender studies
human body
identity
jg ballard
john hawkes
kathy acker
literature
magnetic resonance imaging
media studies
medicine
mercy
perception of the human body
performance art
politics
popular culture
porn
pornography
pornography debate
robert coover
science
sex work
subjectivity
taboo
technology
telecommunications
visual arts
william vollmann
Product details
- ISBN 9780520210325
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic resonance imaging, computers, and telecommunications) have profoundly altered our concepts of the human body. Cyberspace is producing new forms of identity and subjectivity. The novelists, filmmakers, and performers in Bad Girls and Sick Boys are the interpreters of these brave new worlds, cartographers who are busy mapping the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us. Bad Girls and Sick Boys offers a vital and entertaining tour of the current cultural landscape. Kauffman boldly connects the dots between the radical artists who shatter taboos and challenge legal and aesthetic conventions. She links writers like John Hawkes and Robert Coover to Kathy Acker and William Vollmann; filmmakers like Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien to Brian De Palma and Gus Van Sant; and performers like Carolee Schneemann and Annie Sprinkle to the visual arts. Kauffman's lively interviews with J. G.
Ballard, David Cronenberg, Bob Flanagan, and Orlan add an extraordinary dimension to her timely and convincing argument.
Linda S. Kauffman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre and Epistolary Fictions (1986); Special Delivery: Epistolary Modes in Modern Fiction (1992); and editor of three collections of feminist essays, including American Feminist Thought at Century's End (1993).
