Journal article
Book Review: Transgressive bodies: Representations in film and popular culture, edited by Niall Richardson, Surrey and Burlington, Ashgate, 2010, 237 pp., ISBN 9780754676225 (hbk)
Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.27(2), pp.323-325
2013
Abstract
Transgressive Bodies is premised on two key points. First, that film, television and the Internet are a modern manifestation of the freak show stage. Performing on the stage of this freak show are transgressive bodies: hyper-muscular, fat, transsexed and disabled. The central thesis of the book and the second part of Richardson's premise are that these bodies are represented in popular media in two ways – first, they are contained or made more socially acceptable. Second, this threat may instead be subject to an eroticization, or (s)exploitation...
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- Title
- Book Review: Transgressive bodies: Representations in film and popular culture, edited by Niall Richardson, Surrey and Burlington, Ashgate, 2010, 237 pp., ISBN 9780754676225 (hbk)
- Authors/Creators
- K. Ellis (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media and Culture, Vol.27(2), pp.323-325
- Publisher
- Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 991005541123107891
- Copyright
- © 2013 Katie Ellis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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