 | Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral Subjects: Arts; Behavioral Sciences; Health and Social Care; Humanities; Social Sciences; Music; Art & Visual Culture; Psychological Science; Mental Health; Health & Society; Philosophy; Media & Film Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; History of Art; Visual Culture; Death Studies; Death and Dying; Aesthetics; Cognitive Psychology; Film Studies; Medical Sociology; This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology. Max Ryynänen is Senior Lecturer of Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University. Heidi S. Kosonen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä Susanne C. Ylönen is Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä. |
