| Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film 1850-1950 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Denisoff, D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403921636 ISBN-13: 9781403921635 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and "noir" literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791 |
| LCCN: 2003061327 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.36" W x 8.92" (0.90 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and noir literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see. |