Focusing on contemporary film and fiction, this work examines the construction of the body, both within cultural production and as a cultural product itself. It also provides an engagement with the cultural representation of the body and its "dangerous desires".Transgressive interpretations of conventional imagery merge with critical considerations of subcultural forms. The topics discussed include male erotic objectification; narcissistic masculinity; male to female transvestism; cyborgs and female desire; body piercing; "demonic" children in film; queer cinema; vampires in women's fiction; the cannibal film; cyborgs and necrophiliac desire; AIDS; and reincarnation films.
