Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

Gilad Padva is a lecturer in Film and Media Studies at Beit Berl College and the Open University of Israel. He is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014) and co-editor (with Nurit Buchweitz) of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (Palgrave Macmillan 2014).Nurit Buchweitz is Professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies at Beit Berl College, Israel. She is the author of Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir Wiezeltier and the Poetry of the 1960s (2008) and An Officer of Civilization: The Poetics of Michel Houellebecq (2015).

• 1. Part I Straight Intimacies and Heterosexual Guilty Pleasures.- 2. Fifty Shades of Guilty Pleasure - Sara K. Howe and Antonnet Renae Johnson.- 2. Vitalities and Fatalities in Intimate Relationships in Etgar Keret's Graphic Narratives - Nurit Buchweitz.- 3. Intimacy in Crisis: Family Dysfunction in Israeli Literature for Preschool Readers - Einat Baram Eshel.- 4. Part II Adapted Intimacies and Spectacular Obscenities: 4 An Intimate Adaptation - Jelena Borojević.- 5. Satyricon of Fellini: Carnival and Bacchanalias in the Sexual Politics of Imperial Rome - José Maurício Saldanha-Álvarez.- 6. Re-imagining the 1970s: Romance, Sleaze and obscenity in Bombay Cinema - Ankita Deb.- 7. Part III Queer Intimacies and Politicized Attractions: 7 David Wojnarowicz's Poetics: Magnifying Homosexual Male Bodies, Exalting Queer Intimacies -Mélanie Grué.- 8. Marco Berger: Homoaffective through Cinematic Queer Continuums - William Daniel Holcombe.- 9. Hidden Desires: Cinematic Representations of Man/Boy Love - Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.- 10. Girl Meets Girl: Sexual Sitings in Lesbian Romantic Comedies - Kelly McWilliam.- 11. Part IV Gendered Intimacies and Feminized Carnalities: 11 Controlling the Mind for the Body: The De-Intellectualization of Women within the American Gothic - Matthew Martin.- 12. The Duality of Intimacy and Intimidation: Reclaiming the Ethical Kernel of Kryzstof Kieślowski's La double vie de Véronique in the Wake of Soviet Fall - Man-tat Terence Leung.- 13. Part V Interracial Intimacies and Ethnicized Intercourse: 13 Utopian Transgressions: Intimate Relationships across Social Boundaries - Miri Talmon.- 14. The Epistemology of the Ethnic Closet: Interracial Intimacy and Unconditional Love in Ian Iqbal Rashid's A Touch of Pink - Gilad Padva.- 15.Part VI Advertised Intimacies and Eroticized Pop Music: 15 Romantic Relationships and Sexuality in Hebrew Advertisements 1967-1977 - Avivit Agam Dali.- 16. Vulgar Lyrics in Nigeria Twenty-First Century Popular Music: St. Janet and Olamide (Badoo) - Ayokunle O. Omobowale, Dauda, A. Busari, Mofeyisara O. Omobowale and Olugbenga Samuel Falase.