Bad Girls and Sick Boys

Description:

This book turns the censorship debate on its head by posing new questions: What is fantasy? What fantasies circulate throughout pop culture, in the media, and on the Right? What function does the avant-garde have in a culture that co-opts every subversive act? How are novelists, filmmakers, and performance artists using technology and the human body to map the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us?

subjects: Postmodernism,  Feminist Theory,  the Post-human,  Sexualities,  Queer theory,  Feminism and the arts,  Body, Human, in literature,  Modern Arts,  Human figure in art,  Fantasy in art,  Human body in literature,  Arts, modern,  Corps humain dans l'art,  Corps humain dans la littérature,  Fantasmes dans l'art,  Féminisme et arts,  Postmodernisme,  Arts,  ART,  Reference,  Performance,  Art, Architecture & Applied Arts,  Fine Arts - General

People: Orlan,  Bob Flanagan,  Ngozi Onwurah,  Isaac Julien,  Brian De Palma,  David Cronenberg,  J.G. Ballard,  Robert Coover,  John Hawkes,  Kathy Acker,  William Vollmann,  Andrea Dworkin,  Bret Easton Ellis

Places: New York,  Los Angeles,  Paris,  London

Times: 20th century fiction,  film,  and performance art that anticipates the 21st century