McCosker, Anthony. "Transformations of Pain: Erotic Encounters with Crash."
Sex, Violence and the Body. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008. 103-118.
McCosker käsittelee siis elokuvaa Crash artikkelissaan viitteessä mainitussa kirjassa.
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While less zealously pathologised in recent times, a broad array of sex-ual practices and expressions loosely defined as
sadomasochism (SM), orunder the broader rubric of Bondage, Discipline, Sadism and Masochism(BDSM), remain marginalised.
Despite this, and perhaps as a direct chal-lenge, literary, film and new media images have proliferated.
Themes of BDSM are at play in films such as 9 ½ Weeks (1986), Wild at Heart (1990), Quills (2000),
Secretary (2002), and most interestingly, Crash (1996), aswell as a wide range of television programming, advertising, websitesand music. Indeed there is ample support for the claim that the turn of the twenty-first century can be described as ‘a time for stories of domi-nance and submission’ (Langdridge and Butt, 2004: 35). Behind the moremainstream images, performance art since the 1960s has led the way bytapping the body’s potential for modification, and audiences’ fascina-tion with the aesthetics of ‘body mutilations’ (Kuppers, 2007; Jones,1998; O’Dell, 1998). The focus of this chapter is the cinematic image of masochism in David Cronenberg’s film Crash, which provides an important and enduring insight into the broad cultural challenges posed by the sexualisation of bodies traversed by wounds, markings and violent forces, and boundary modifications
