Theoretically and representationally responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Taking as its subject the works of Jane Campion Catherine Breillat Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as well as the films Secretary (Steven Shainberg) Dans Ma Peau (Marina de Van) Red Road (Andrea Arnold 2006) Amer (HÊlène Cattat and Bruno Forzani) and Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity. Using the philosophical writings of Kristeva Irigaray Lacan Scarry and Bataille McPhee argues that masochism cannot and should not be considered aside from its ethical and intersubjective implications and furthermore that the aesthetic tendencies emerging across these films - obscenity extremity confrontation and a transgressive ambiguous form of beauty - are strongly related to these implications. Ultimately this complex and novel work calls upon the spectator and the theorist to reconsider normative ideas about desire corporeality fantasy and suffering. | Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics
Theoretically and representationally responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Taking as its subject the works of Jane Campion Catherine Breillat Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as well as the films Secretary (Steven Shainberg) Dans Ma Peau (Marina de Van) Red Road (Andrea Arnold 2006) Amer (HÊlène Cattat and Bruno Forzani) and Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh) Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity. Using the philosophical writings of Kristeva Irigaray Lacan Scarry and Bataille McPhee argues that masochism cannot and should not be considered aside from its ethical and intersubjective implications and furthermore that the aesthetic tendencies emerging across these films - obscenity extremity confrontation and a transgressive ambiguous form of beauty - are strongly related to these implications. Ultimately this complex and novel work calls upon the spectator and the theorist to reconsider normative ideas about desire corporeality fantasy and suffering. | Female Masochism in Film Sexuality Ethics and Aesthetics
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