Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting

One of the few explorations available on the underpinning thinking for character construction in popular filmsApproaches 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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction- Re-Phrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters.- Part 1. Myth: From the Absent, Invisible 'Pervert' to the 'Is-ness' of the Feiticeiro/a.- Chapter 2.. Psycho-Analytic 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 2. 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 3. 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. Conclusion: A Few of My Favourite Things: The Feiticeiro/a as Foundation for 'Pervert' Characterisation.