Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture

Gilad Padva is a scholar and lecturer in cultural studies, film studies, men's studies and queer theory. He is the author of Straight Skin, Gay Masks, and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen (2020) and Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014). He is the co-editor of Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (2020), Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017), and Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014). He is currently an independent scholar and lecturer.Yair Koren-Maimon is the Chair of the Department of Literature and a senior lecturer at Gordon College of Education in Haifa, Israel. His main research interests are multidisciplinary literature studies, psychology, gender studies and film studies. He is the author of Therapist-Patients Relations in the Literature of Shmuel Yosef Agnon [in Hebrew] (2015) and the co-editor of Representations: Reality, Imitation, and Imagination—Critical Studies [in Hebrew] (2020).

• IntroductionPart I Erotically Charged Body Parts and Personified Sex Organs\1. The Erotically Charged, Horrible Hands of Orlac: A Trans Masculine Attunement2. Salvador Dalí’s Sublime Buttocks3. Bodies without Organs in Bertrand Mandico's Cinema: Exploring Sexuality and Desire in a Post-gender World4. The Animated Cock: Carnivals, Cannibals, and Personified White Phalluses in Tarzoon: Shame of the JunglePart II Amputated Minds of Their Own5. "We Are Our Brains": Disembodied Brain Films in 1950s Cold War America6. (Dis)embodied Heads and Gender Subversion in Kurahashi Yumiko's Bizarre Little Stories7. Off with Her Head: Renaissance Queens, Medusa, and the Threat of the Female HeadPart III Disembodied Consciousness and Corporeal Souls8. Philomela's Tongue9. Threatening Memories: The Consciousness of the Disembodied Hand (350)10. What's in an Organ? A Study of Personified Body Parts in the Grimm Brothers' Fairytale "The Three Surgeons"Part IV Self-Personification of One's Own Body Parts 11. "It's My Nose That Has Run Away from Me": Dissociative Identity Disorder and a Struggle to Recover the Potential Space in Gogol's Story "The Nose"12. Personified Body Parts as Lonely People's Pets in Gary Kilworth's "Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands"Part V Autonomous Eyes and Embodied Surveillance13. The Autonomous Eye in Alfred Hitchcock's The Blind Man14. "'Bli Ayin Ha'Ra!" (May the Evil Eye Not Affect You): The Autonomous Eye as A Personification of Evil in Judaism15. The Eye and the Vagina as Windows of the Imagination: Pan's Labyrinth