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art cinema
Author_Jacob Engelberg
Basic Instinct 1992
bisexual film
bisexual marketability
bisexual men
bisexual theory
bisexual transgression
bisexual women
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cinematic sexuality
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erotic thriller film
femininity
figuration
film studies
French cinema
Gaspar Noe
hermeneutics
HIVAIDS
Irreversible 2002
Jose Ramon Larraz
lesbian feminism
lesbian politics
lesbian thriller
lesbian vampire
monosexism
paranoia
Paul Verhoeven
queer cinema
queer economics
queer film
queer murderer
queer theory
relationality
Savage Nights 1992
sex on screen
sexuality
Sharon Stone
She Must Be Seeing Things 1987
Sheila McLaughlin
transfemininity
vampire film
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- ISBN 9781478032984
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary. Engelberg’s engagement with bisexual transgression on film illuminates the mutability and instability of sexuality, and of sociocultural structures more broadly by resisting the censure of images as politically harmful as well as the celebration of transgression as inherently subversive. Instead, Engelberg understands bisexual transgression as a process whereby sociocultural rules are made knowable by being contested. From 1970s vampire films to 1990s erotic thrillers, from lesbian imaginings of female bisexuality to European art cinema’s reckonings with HIV/AIDS, bisexual figures on film embody anxieties around the precarity of binary sexuality while revealing the contingencies of sexuality’s cinematic signification. Revivifying the underexploited contributions of bisexual theory, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression proposes a new mode of film theorization and analysis that examines the rich space between and beyond dominant categories of sexual organization, where sexual unpredictability, the allure of the forbidden, and the precarity of sexual signification are illuminated.
Jacob Engelberg is Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
