Eros and Thanatos
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| - | [[Sex]] and [[death]] have gone hand in hand since the earliest times. The erotic horror genre can best be approached through the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Jess Franco. Philosophically, the theme has been explored by [[Georges Bataille]] in ''[[L'Érotisme]]''. | + | |
| The most relevant movie in the genre is ''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]''. | The most relevant movie in the genre is ''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]''. | ||
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| + | The erotic horror genre can best be approached through the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Jess Franco. | ||
| + | ===Further reading=== | ||
| *[[Lesbian vampire]]s | *[[Lesbian vampire]]s | ||
| *[[Snuff film]]s legend | *[[Snuff film]]s legend | ||
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- "Human sexuality is, quite apart from Christian repressions, a highly questionable phenomenon, and belongs, at least potentially, among the extreme rather than the ordinary experiences of humanity. Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself." --Susan Sontag in the The Pornographic Imagination
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See also
- Death drive
- Eros (concept)
- Thanatos
- Erotic asphyxiation
- Liebestod
- Little death
- Love and death
- Necrophilia
- Sex and death
- Sex and violence
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle
- Death and eroticism in Norse paganism
- Erotic horror
- The Tears of Eros
- De l’érotisme, il est possible de dire qu’il est l’approbation de la vie jusque dans la mort
- Erotism: Death and Sensuality
"Erotic horror" in art, literature and cinema
The most relevant movie in the genre is Peeping Tom.
In art
In cinema
The erotic horror genre can best be approached through the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Jess Franco.
Further reading
- Lesbian vampires
- Snuff films legend
- Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell
- Scream queen
Alfred Hitchcock
Cinematic bibliography
- Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984 (1994)
- Eros in Hell (1998) - Jack Hunter
- Necronomicon series (1996 - )
See also
- Eros and Thanatos
- Botan Doro
- Sexual aggression
- Bodice ripper
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