Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

The Feiticeiro/a as Character

LJ Theo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 226 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-87934-5 (ISBN)

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This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive 'pervert' characters in mainstream (not 'art'), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended re-phrasing of the notion of 'the pervert' as Feiticiero/a: a newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the scholarly tradition of the 'linguistic turn' of continental philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.

LJ Theo is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, where he runs the film school and teaches screenwriting and communications.

Chapter 1. Introduction- Re-Phrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters.- Part 1. Myth: From the Absent, Invisible 'Pervert' to the 'Is-ness' of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 2.. Psycho-Analytic Absence: Freudian Object-Focus and the Resultant 'Pervert sans-Corpus'.- Chapter 3. Absenting Heteropatriarchal Discourses: The Invisible 'Pervert'.- Chapter 4. Anthropologically Present 'Perverts': Re-Instating the Feitiço as the Feiticeiro/a.- Part 2. Connotation:The Philosophical Constitution of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 5. Towards an Episteme for the Feiticeiro/a: Realism in Character Construction.- Chapter 6. The Feiticeiro/a and the Categorical 'Fetishist': Sexuality Prescribed through Psychiatric Classifications.- Chapter 7. The Internally Coherent Feiticeiro/a: A Structure not a Substance.- Part 3. Denotation: The Form of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 8. The Feiticeiro/a as a Materially Identifiable Character: Subjectively Conceived Filmic Participants.- Chapter 9. Writing 'Perverse' Behaviour for the Feiticeiro/a: Revisioning the ICD Diagnostic Criteria.- Chapter 10. Rephrasing Character Action for the Feiticeiro/a: External Coherence through Transactional Relations.- Chapter 11. Conclusion: A Few of My Favourite Things: The Feiticeiro/a as Foundation for 'Pervert' Characterisation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2018
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 226 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	329 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	character construction • Feiticeiro/a • Fetish • Film • Perversion • screenwriting • Sexuality
ISBN-10	3-319-87934-0 / 3319879340
ISBN-13	978-3-319-87934-5 / 9783319879345
Zustand	Neuware