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ItemTerror y el monstruo feminino: Una abyección imaginaria(laFuga, 2016)
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ItemEquus: ecstasy, therapy, and the animal(Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2015)
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Item“Low down Dirty Rat”: Popular and Moral Responses to Possums and Rats in Melbourne(Led Edizioni Universitarie, 2014-11)
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ItemThe Elephant's Graveyard: Spectres of the Abyss?(UTS ePress, 2014)
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ItemPornography and pleasure: the female spectator( 1982)In this paper, I wish to make some comments on the pornographic film text and the question of pleasure for the female viewer. My starting point is The Story of O, a film which is ‘about’ sado-masochistic relationships but I shall also refer to Emmanuelle, The Anti-Virgin, which is part II of the Emmanuelle trilogy, a group of films which have been more widely viewed that any other recent soft-porn products.
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ItemBaby bitches from hell: monstrous little women in film(Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2005)The Surrealists were fascinated by what they perceived as the dual nature of the little girl, her propensity for innocence and evil. This theme has also proven an enduring one in the history of the cinema and provided the basis for many acclaimed films from The Innocents to Lolita. The view of the female child as particularly close to the non-material world of fantasy and the imagination was central to the beliefs of the Surrealists. They regarded childhood as "the privileged age in which imaginative faculties were still à l’état sauvage – sensitive to all kinds of impressions and associations which education would systematically 'correct'". "Dissecting mystery is like violating a child", Bunuel was fond of saying.' In the 1924 Manifesto, Breton claimed, "The spirit which takes the plunge into Surrealism exultantly relives the best of its childhood."
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ItemSusan Norrie( 2004)The work of Susan Norrie, which now spans more than two decades, is challenging, provocative and inspirational. As with all visionary artists, Norrie’s practice has developed and changed over time, now incorporating painting, objects, still and moving images and sound. from her paintings to her installations and video projections, Norrie’s work combines technical brilliance and extraordinary talent with an acute and restless intelligence.
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ItemJedda(Wallflower Press, 2007)
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ItemDarwin's Screens: Evolutionary Aesthetics, Time and Sexual Display in the Cinema(Melbourne University Press, 2009)