Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

The Feiticeiro/a as Character

LJ Theo

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319650425
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319650432
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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.   

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1 Rephrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters
• Part I Myth: From the Absent, Invisible ‘Pervert’ to the ‘Is-ness’ of the Feiticeiro/a
• Chapter 2 Psychoanalytic Absence: Freudian Object-Focus and the Resultant ‘Pervert Sans-Corpus’
• Chapter 3 Absenting Heteropatriarchal Discourses: The Invisible ‘Pervert’
• Chapter 4 Anthropologically Present ‘Perverts’: Re-instating the Feitiço as the Feiticeiro/a
• Part II Connotation: The Philosophical Constitution of the Feiticeiro/a
• Chapter 5 Towards an Episteme for the Feiticeiro/a: Realism in Character Construction
• Chapter 6 The Feiticeiro/a and the Categorical ‘Fetishist’: Sexuality Prescribed Through Psychiatric Classifications
• Chapter 7 The Internally Coherent Feiticeiro/a: A Structure not a Substance
• Part III Denotation: The Form of the Feiticeiro/a
• Chapter 8 The Feiticeiro/a as a Materially Identifiable Character: Subjectively Conceived Filmic Participants
• Chapter 9 Writing ‘Perverse’ Behaviour for the Feiticeiro/a: Revisioning the ICD Diagnostic Criteria
• Chapter 10 Rephrasing Character Action for the Feiticeiro/a: External Coherence Through Transactional Relations
• Chapter 11 A Few of My Favourite Things: The Feiticeiro/a as Foundation for ‘Pervert’ Characterisation
• Index