Sensational Pleasures: In Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture - The Phallic Eye Edited by: Gilad Padva & Nurit Buchweitz This international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. The phallic eye is analyzed as a spectacle of the obscene, the scene and the sin, a visualization of guilty pleasures and outrageous lusts that evoke anxiety, guilt, satisfaction, intimacy and intimidation. The phallic eye is a powerful and useful metaphor for a radical investigation of the interrelations between spectatorship, authorship, dominance, Mulvey's theorization of voyeurism/exhibitionism/Looked-at-ness, and surveillance of human desires and visual pleasures. This volume suggests a broad perspective on the phallus as passionate, dynamic and energetic force, which is more than the consuming, predatory eye of the beholder who yearns for sensational spectacles. The chapters focus on thrillers, horror cinema, pornography, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities. Gilad Padva is a film and media scholar who studies the New Queer Cinema, popular culture, visual communications and men's studies. Dr Padva is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture, and he publishes extensively in international academic journals, international collections, and encyclopedias. He currently works for the Communication Department at Tel Aviv University, the Open University of Israel, Beit Berl Academic College, and WIZO Haifa Academic College. Nurit Buchweitz is a senior lecturer of comparative literature and chair of the academic council of the Faculty of Culture and Society at Beit Berl College in Israel. Dr Buchweitz's research focuses on postmodern poetics and theory, Michel Houellebecq's Prose, Children and Youth Literature. She is the author of Permit to Pass: Generation Shift, Meir Wiezeltier and the Poetry of the 1960s (in Hebrew) and co-editor of In Other[s] Words: Studies in Hebrew and Arabic Literature (in Hebrew).