A Tail… Film Metaphors of Bodily Transgressions in Human and Animal World

Andrzej Pitrus

doi:10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.12

Published: 2021-06-29

No. 1 (7) (2021)

A Tail… Film Metaphors of Bodily Transgressions in Human and Animal World

Andrzej Pitrus

Section: ARTICLES

https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.12

Abstract

Andrzej Pitrus writes about films showing the transgression of man towards animality. He is interested in human-animal hybrids, as well as prohibited sexual contacts between representatives of different species. These motifs are present in the cinema, but they are a kind of taboo, a line which filmmakers rarely cross. It turns out, however, that they can effectively problematize fundamental existential issues and more.

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hybrid , zoophilia , body deformity , film , tail

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Pitrus, A. (2021). A Tail… Film Metaphors of Bodily Transgressions in Human and Animal World. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (1 (7), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2021.07.12

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No. 1 (7) (2021)
Published: 2021-09-28

ISSN: 2719-2687

eISSN: 2451-3849

10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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