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Sensational Pleasures in
Cinema, Literature and
Visual Culture
Edited by

Gilad Padva
Tel Aviv University, Israel

and

Nurit Buchweitz
Beit Berl College, Israel

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The Phallic Eye

Selection, introduction and editorial matter Gilad Padva and Nurit

Buchweitz 2014
Individual chapters Contributors 2014

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Contents
Acknowledgements

viii
ix

Introduction
The Phallic: An Object of Terror and Delight
Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz

Part I Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries

1 The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision
in Greek Mythology
Rachel Gottesman
2 The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldins Scopophilia
Lorraine Dumenil

21
35

3 The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colettes Challenge

to the Male Gaze
Marion Krauthaker-Ringa

50

4 The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed

by the Male Gaze
Matthew Martin

62

5 Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and

the Phallic Gaze in Irrversible
Kathleen Scott

74

Part II Phallic and Anti-Phallic Fantasies

6 Transcendental Gazes: Pornographic Images of
Transmasculinity
Finn Jackson Ballard
7 Look Closer: Sam Mendess Visions of
White Men
Ruth Heholt
8 Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and
the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following
the Exhibition The Uncanny XX
Sigal Barkai

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Notes on Contributors

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Contents

9 Zack Snyders Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of

Looked-at-ness Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011)
Alexander Sergeant
10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion:
D. M. Thomass Charlotte or AReflection of/on
Pornographic Literature and Society
Fanny Delnieppe

127

140

11 Theres No Losing It: Disability and Voyeurism

in Rear Window and Vertigo
Laura Christiansen

157

12 The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and

the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding
James D. Stone

169

13 Ambiguous Exposures: Gender-Bending Muscles of

the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone
and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson
Jacqueline Brady
14 Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying
Practices in Contemporary Cinema
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

180

195

Part IV Surveillance and Big Brothers

15 Voyeurism and Surveillance: ACinematic
and Visual Affair
Meera Perampalam
16 Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade,
The Physician and the Voyeuristic Pleasures
of Violent Penetration
Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

215

231

Part V Gaps and Cracks

17 Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of
the Text in Hitchcocks Marnie
Inbar Shaham

245

18 Pictura in Arcana: The Traumatic Real as

In/visible Crack
Lysane Fauvel

258

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Part III Bleeding Masculinities

Contents

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Index

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19 The Female Body in Frederick Sandyss Paintings, or

The Sublimation of Desire
Virginie Thomas

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