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NY, Cornell Univ., Diss.--Ithaca, 2005.

This dissertation is an authorship study of the controversial contemporary French film director Catherine Breillat. Using screen captures to provide visual evidence for the philosophical and theoretical perspectives staked out by Breillat, I perform close analysis of the following six films: Une Vrai Jeune Fille (1976), 36 Fillette (1988), Romance (1999), À Ma Soeur (2001), Brève Traverseé (2001), and Anatomie de L'enfer (2004). Using theory only to supplement interpretations, I draw on the work of George Bataille, Stanley Cavell, and Slavoj Zizek. Breillat's films work through a series of important philosophical ideas integral to an account of eroticism: the paradox of speaking about silence; achieving purity through an encounter with disgust; the singularity of individual desire; the split in identity between the mind and the body; the relationship between sex and death; the relationship between the taboo and transgression; and the violence of female desire. Breillat's films encourage viewers to alter their thinking about sexuality and liberate themselves to lead a more fully erotic life. The capacity of Breillat's films to free eroticism is their most important contribution not only to film history, but also to the totality of human experience.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-237) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Religion)--Vanderbilt University, May 2002. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 129-142).

GADELHA, José Juliano Barbosa. O sensível e o cruel: uma aprendizagem pelas performances sadomasoquistas. 2016. 130f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Instituto de Cultura e Arte, Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-27T13:19:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-27T13:22:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-27T13:22:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_jjbgadelha.pdf: 1460277 bytes, checksum: 9f4b65afccb41a71491f466366f178f9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This dissertation deals with the experimentation with sadomasochistic performances in an anthropologic and artistic process of thinking by constructing a poetics of cruelty. On that learning journey, the author will propose the actualization of a performative-installation that transmits sensitive signs (figurative and figural ones) of sadomasochism. The theoretical traverse lines come from Bruno Latour’s symmetrical anthropology, Antonin Artaud’s theatre of cruelty, Clarice Lispector’s literature, the philosophy of the sensible by Jacques Rancière with the nomadic philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, the Performance Studies, and the dissident knowledges from Queer Theory, specially the contrasexual thinking by Paul Beatriz Preciado. Taking sensation and representation during this learning, the lines of force will be sought by allowing the anthropologic and artistic knowledge to move through the simultaneity of cultural and natural agencies which, in the poststructuralist turn, soar towards new perspectives on what arts, genders, sexualities, the current machines of production-injunction-reappropriation of pleasures and the technologies of bodies could be. To sum up, this dissertation has affect as an axe whose sciences named methodology and the percept as an epistemology of the lived experience. / Esta dissertação trata da experimentação com as performances sadomasoquistas em um processo de pensamento e criação antropológico e artístico, construindo uma poética da crueldade. Nas aprendizagens desse trajeto, o autor vai propondo a realização de uma instalação-performativa que transmita os signos sensíveis (figurativos e figurais) do sadomasoquismo. Os atravessamentos teóricos vão da antropologia simétrica de Bruno Latour, o teatro da crueldade de Antonin Artaud, a literatura de Clarice Lispector, a filosofia do sensível de Jacques Rancière, a filosofia nômade de Deleuze e Guattari aos Performance Studies e os saberes dissidentes da Queer Theory, em especial com o saber da contrassexualidade de Paul Beatriz Preciado. Nas tomadas de sensação e representação das aprendizagens, buscar-se-á seguir as linhas de força que permitam ao conhecimento antropológico-artístico se movimentar pelas simultaneidades das agências culturais e das agências naturais que, na guinada pós-estruturalista, disparam rumo às novas perspectivas do que sejam as artes, os gêneros, os sexos, as sexualidades e as atuais máquinas de produção-injunção-reapropriação dos prazeres e das tecnologias dos corpos. Em suma, a dissertação tem o afecto como eixo daquilo que as ciências chamam de metodologia e o percepto como epistemologia do vivido.

Discussions about sexuality often entail examinations of ethics and acceptable behaviors. It is difficult to create an environment in which honest conversations about sexual mores are supported and discussed without judgment My aim in this thesis work is to explore such taboo sexual practices as dominant/submissive relationships without attempting to define its ethics or psychological indications, as well as document the progress of my artwork as I examine both my sexuality and that of the women of my generation. I have created a series of drawings and photo-collage constructions entitled Willing Participant, which visually explores sexual practices that have traditionally been deemed deviant or unacceptable. The research for this thesis includes an examination of my visual work preceding this series, a survey of the sexual attitudes of my peers and research in established Feminist theory. The result of this work is a springboard from which my artwork can progress? alongside my generations emergent and evolving sexuality.

I denna studie undersöker jag Carina Rydbergs skildring av "dålig" sexualitet. Jag gör en närläsning av Rydbergs roman Månaderna utan R. Läsningen utgår från Michel Foucaults och Jacques Derridas dekonstruktionsteorier samt från Judith Butlers genusteorier. Jag undersöker huruvida romanen kan läsas som gotisk, huruvida Rydberg kan sägas luckra upp gränsen mellan "god" och "dålig" sexualitet, samt huruvida hon skildrar sadomasochistiska kvinnor som subjekt. Jag kommer fram till att Rydberg kan sägas luckra upp gränsen mellan "god" och "dålig" sexualitet och att hon, genom att skildra sadomasochistiska kvinnor som subjekt, stör könade sexualitetsnormer. Häri ligger Rydbergs subversiva potential. Detta betraktar jag som en aspekt av den gotiska tradition som Månaderna utan R kan sägas tillhöra.