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Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film

Eros in the Mind's Eye: Sexuality and the Fantastic in Art and Film

Palumbo, Donald
Palumbo, Donald

Hardcover

Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy, Book 21

Literary CriticismGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0313241023
ISBN13: 9780313241024
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 16 1986
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty.

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