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9780520210301

Bad Girls and Sick Boys

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    9780520210301

  • ISBN10:

    0520210301

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2023-11-15
  • Publisher: University of California Press

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix(2)
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue 1(18)
PART ONE PERFORMANCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 19(64)
1 Contemporary Art Exhibitionists
19(31)
2 Cutups in Beauty School
50(33)
PART TWO VISCERAL CINEMA 83(66)
3 Impolitic Bodies: Race and Desire
83(18)
4 Sex Work: Producing Porn
101(14)
5 David Cronenberg's Surreal Abjection
115(34)
PART THREE ARRESTING FICTION 149(112)
6 J. G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibitions
149(44)
7 Criminal Writing: John Hawkes and Robert Coover
193(15)
8 New Inquisitions: Kathy Acker and William Vollmann
208(20)
9 Masked Passions: Meese, Mercy, and American Psycho
228(33)
Epilogue 261(10)
Notes 271(32)
Index 303

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