Personified Body Parts in Cinema Literature and Visual Culture

<p><i>Personified Body Parts in Cinema Literature and Visual Culture</i> investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema television visual culture literature erotica folklore and mystique.</p><p>Culturally socially and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism this book vigorously questions and problematizes numerous artistic aesthetic technological naïve and macabre manipulations of body parts for various purposes. A diverse team of authors explore how scribing human traits to limbs eyes brains genitalia hearts and other inner organs is grotesque and aesthetic repealing and appealing intimidating and intimate rude and enjoyable material and spiritual surprising and mundane. Personified organs are interrelated with bodily integrity visceral aesthetics distorted nature social anxiety and acceptability cultural classifications and hierarchies and dissident innovativeness andradicalism.</p><p>This interdisciplinary volume involves body studies; cinema television and media studies; literature studies; cultural intercultural and countercultural studies; mythology and folklore studies; gender sexuality trans and queer studies; ethnicities and postcolonialism; and art history.</p>