Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting: The Feiticeiro/a as Character

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Rephrasing the Feitiço: A New Episteme for Perverse Characters (LJ Theo)....Pages 1-21 Front Matter ....Pages 23-23 Psychoanalytic Absence: Freudian Object-Focus and the Resultant ‘Pervert Sans-Corpus’ (LJ Theo)....Pages 25-43 Absenting Heteropatriarchal Discourses: The Invisible ‘Pervert’ (LJ Theo)....Pages 45-63 Anthropologically Present ‘Perverts’: Re-instating the Feitiço as the Feiticeiro/a (LJ Theo)....Pages 65-82 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Towards an Episteme for the Feiticeiro/a: Realism in Character Construction (LJ Theo)....Pages 85-101 The Feiticeiro/a and the Categorical ‘Fetishist’: Sexuality Prescribed Through Psychiatric Classifications (LJ Theo)....Pages 103-122 The Internally Coherent Feiticeiro/a: A Structure not a Substance (LJ Theo)....Pages 123-141 Front Matter ....Pages 143-143 The Feiticeiro/a as a Materially Identifiable Character: Subjectively Conceived Filmic Participants (LJ Theo)....Pages 145-163 Writing ‘Perverse’ Behaviour for the Feiticeiro/a: Revisioning the ICD Diagnostic Criteria (LJ Theo)....Pages 165-184 Rephrasing Character Action for the Feiticeiro/a: External Coherence Through Transactional Relations (LJ Theo)....Pages 185-201 A Few of My Favourite Things: The Feiticeiro/a as Foundation for ‘Pervert’ Characterisation (LJ Theo)....Pages 203-221 Back Matter ....Pages 223-226