[Commlist] New book: Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture

New book


“/Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture/” has 
just been published and is
available at:
https://www.routledge.com/Personified-Body-Parts-in-Cinema-Literature-and-Visual-Culture/Padva-Koren-Maimon/p/book/9781032892351?srsltid=AfmBOopBS0Xgkjy3ThTWchIDdP1FJn1wiqHfU1pkmycBMW9MCwtNoGpw 



/Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture/ 
(co-edited by Gilad Padva and Yair Koren-Maimon, Routledge 2025) 
investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, 
visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.

Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and 
subtleties of human existentialism, this book vigorously questions and 
problematizes numerous artistic, aesthetic, technological, naïve, and 
macabre manipulations of body parts for various purposes. A diverse team 
of authors explores how scribing human traits to limbs, eyes, brains, 
genitalia, hearts, and other inner organs is grotesque and aesthetic, 
repealing and appealing, intimidating and intimate, rude and enjoyable, 
material and spiritual, surprising and mundane. Personified organs are 
interrelated with bodily integrity, visceral aesthetics, distorted 
nature, social anxiety and acceptability, cultural classifications and 
hierarchies, and dissident innovativeness and radicalism.

The interdisciplinary volume involves body studies, cinema, television, 
and media studies; literature studies; cultural, intercultural, and 
countercultural studies; mythology and folklore studies; gender, 
sexuality, trans, and queer studies; ethnicities and postcolonialism; 
and art history.

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