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The subject of deformity and disability in the ancient Greco-Roman
world has experienced a surge in scholarship over the past two
decades. Recognizing a vast, but relatively un(der)explored, corpus
of evidence, scholars have sought to integrate the deformed and
disabled body back into our understanding of ancient society and
culture, art and representation. The Hunchback in Hellenistic and
Roman Art works towards this end, using the figure of the hunchback
to re-think and re-read images of the 'Other' as well as key issues
that lie at the very heart of ancient representation. The author
takes an art-historical approach, examining key features of the
corpus of hunchbacks, as well as representations of the deformed
and disabled more generally. This provides fertile ground for a
re-assessment of current, and likewise marginalized, scholarship on
the miniature in ancient art, hyperphallicism in ancient art, and
the emphasis on the male body in ancient art.
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The Naked Truth
(Paperback)
Hans W Fahrmeyer; Foreword by Trevor Briggs; Werner Redman
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R791
Discovery Miles 7 910
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde films of Jesus
"Jess" Franco, director of such films as Vampyros Lesbos and Lilian
the Perverted Virgin. Jesus "Jess" Franco is an iconic figure in
world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of
filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for
lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning
his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of
budgets. In the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he
pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly,
throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The
director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in
a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per
year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.
Franco's taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession
with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style
launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting,
and defiantly avant-garde, films such as Necronomicon, Vampyros
Lesbos, Virgin Among the Living Dead, and Venus in Furs are among
the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple
versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco
experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the
viewer who dares enter Franco's domain. Stephen Thrower has devoted
five years to examining each and every Franco film. This book-the
second in a two-volume set-delves into the latter half of Franco's
career, covering titles including Shining Sex, Barbed Wire Dolls,
Swedish Nympho Slaves, and Lilian the Perverted Virgin. Assisted by
the esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, Thrower shines
a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and
uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their
casts, crews, and production histories. Unparalleled in scope and
ambition, Flowers of Perversion brings Franco's career into focus
with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive
assessment of Jess Franco's labyrinthine film universe.
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