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9780520210325

Bad Girls and Sick Boys

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520210325

  • ISBN10:

    0520210328

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

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 inBad Girls and Sick Boysare 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 Boysoffers 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.

Author Biography

Linda S. Kauffman is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologuep. 1
Performance for the Twenty-First Century
Contemporary Art Exhibitionistsp. 19
Cutups in Beauty Schoolp. 50
Visceral Cinema
Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desirep. 83
Sex Work: Producing Pornp. 101
David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjectionp. 115
Arresting Fiction
J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitionsp. 149
Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and Robert Cooverp. 193
New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and William Vollmannp. 208
Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and American Psychop. 228
Epiloguep. 261
Notesp. 271
Indexp. 303
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