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Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

The Feiticeiro/a as Character

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Authors:
  1. LJ Theo

    1. Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

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  • One of the few explorations available on the underpinning thinking for character construction in popular films
  • Approaches character construction from a sexuality studies and semiotics perspective, rather than from a deconstructivist film theory angle
  • Challenges widely-accepted canons of the Hollywood mode of film practice in ways that propose conceptually sound alternatives
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Rephrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters

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    Pages 1-21

  3. Myth: From the Absent, Invisible ‘Pervert’ to the ‘Is-ness’ of the Feiticeiro/a

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      Pages 23-23
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  5. Connotation: The Philosophical Constitution of the Feiticeiro/a

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      Pages 83-83
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  7. Denotation: The Form of the Feiticeiro/a

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      Pages 143-143
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  9. Back Matter

    Pages 223-226
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About this book

This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive ‘pervert’ characters in mainstream (not ‘art’), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended re-phrasing of the notion of ‘the pervert’ as Feiticiero/a: a newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the scholarly tradition of the ‘linguistic turn’ of continental philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens.   


Authors and Affiliations

  • Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa

    LJ Theo

About the author

LJ Theo is Associate Professor in Media Studies at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, where he runs the film school and teaches screenwriting and communications. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

  • Book Subtitle: The Feiticeiro/a as Character

  • Authors: LJ Theo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65043-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65042-5Published: 18 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87934-5Published: 15 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65043-2Published: 09 October 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Poststructuralism

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