Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

1. Introduction The Phallic: “An Object of Terror and Delight”
Gilad Padva, Nurit Buchweitz

Part I. Forbidden Spectatorship and Visceral Imageries

2. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology
Rachel Gottesman

3. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin’s Scopophilia
Lorraine Dumenil

4. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette’s Challenge to the Male Gaze
Marion Krauthaker-Ringa

5. The Monstrous Non-heteronormative Formed by the Male Gaze
Matthew Martin

6. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: Ethics and the Phallic Gaze in Irréversible
Kathleen Scott

Part II. Phallic and Anti-Phallic Fantasies

7. Transcendental Gazes: Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity
Finn Jackson Ballard

8. “Look Closer”: Sam Mendes’s Visions of White Men
Ruth Heholt

9. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX
Sigal Barkai

10. Zack Snyder’s Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of “Looked-at-ness” Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011)
Alexander Sergeant

11. In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas’s Charlotte or A Reflection of/on “Pornographic” Literature and Society
Fanny Delnieppe

Part III. Bleeding Masculinities

12. ‘There’s No Losing It”: Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo
Laura Christiansen

13. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding
James D. Stone

14. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender-Bending Muscles of the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson
Jacqueline Brady

15. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema
Frances Pheasant-Kelly

Part IV. Surveillance and Big Brothers

16. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair
Meera Perampalam

17. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration
Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

Part V. Gaps and Cracks

18. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock’s Marnie
Inbar Shaham

19. Pictura in Arcana: The Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack
Lysane Fauvel

20. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys’s Paintings, or The Sublimation of Desire
Virginie Thomas

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Genre, Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies