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Here, an impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.

Abjection in literature. --- Abjection in motion pictures. --- Art. --- Culture.

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Abjection in literature --- Abjection in motion pictures --- Art --- Kristeva, Julia, - 1941- - Pouvoirs de l'horreur

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In Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the function of these topics in the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and other authors. Kristeva identifies the abject with the eruption of the real and the presence of death. She explores how art and religion each offer ways of purifying the abject, arguing that amid abjection, boundaries between subject and object break down.

Horror in literature. --- Abjection in literature. --- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,

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Shame and Desire defines the contemporary cinematic experience in terms that go beyond the visual. Adopting an intersubjective perspective on film studies, the author maintains that the dialectical poles of subject and object, seeing and being seen no longer seem to be valid. We are now surrounded by images that look back at us provocatively, seductively, indifferently ; and not only in movies, but also in art, television, the city, in chance encounters, and in our private relationships.Taking her cue from Jean-Paul Sartre, the author shows how emotions exemplify the way in which we are ‘forced' to see ourselves through the eyes of others, unable to escape an identity that is imposed upon us from the outside but nevertheless resides ‘in the flesh' – in the affective operations of the body and the senses. To illustrate her account of the intersubjective dynamics and affective bonds of cinema, the author explores the contemporary aesthetic investment in the emotional in the work of filmmakers such as Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke and Eija-Liisa Ahtila.This book proposes an insight into the ways in which we are engaged with visual displays and the look with which they respond to our looking.

Abjection dans le cinéma --- Abjection in motion pictures --- Blik in de film --- Gaze in motion pictures --- Regard au cinéma --- Verworpenheid in de film --- Motion pictures --- Gaze in motion pictures. --- Abjection in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Abjection au cinéma --- Psychological aspects. --- Aspect psychologique --- film --- filmtheorie --- identiteit --- von Trier Lars --- Haneke Michael --- Ahtila Eija-Liisa --- intersubjectiviteit --- 791.41 --- Cinéma --- Regard au cinéma --- Abjection au cinéma --- Psychological aspects --- Motion pictures - Psychological aspects

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"You people put importance on your lives. Well, my life has never been important to anyone. I haven't got any guilt about anything," bragged the mass-murderer Charles Manson. "These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. . . . They are running in the streets--and they are coming right at you!" When a real murderer accuses the society he has brutalized, we are shocked, but we are thrilled by the same accusations when they are mouthed by a fictional rebel, outlaw, or monster. In Bitter Carnival, Michael Andr Bernstein explores this contradiction and defines a new figure: the Abject Hero. Standing at the junction of contestation and conformity, the Abject Hero occupies the logically impossible space created by the intersection of the satanic and the servile. Bernstein shows that we heroicize the Abject Hero because he represents a convention that has become a staple of our common mythology, as seductive in mass culture as it is in high art. Moving from an examination of classical Latin satire; through radically new analyses of Diderot, Dostoevsky, and Cline; and culminating in the courtroom testimony of Charles Manson, Bitter Carnival offers a revisionist rereading of the entire tradition of the "Saturnalian dialogue" between masters and slaves, monarchs and fools, philosophers and madmen, citizens and malcontents. It contests the supposedly regenerative power of the carnivalesque and challenges the pieties of utopian radicalism fashionable in contemporary academic thinking. The clarity of its argument and literary style compel us to confront a powerful dilemma that engages some of the most central issues in literary studies, ethics, cultural history, and critical theory today.

Abjection in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Cynicism in literature. --- Heroes in literature. --- Themes, motives. --- Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)