Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture

Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture is an academic anthology exploring depictions of close personal bonds across diverse expressive forms. The collection investigates creative works in cinema, literature, the visual arts, picture books, advertising, and popular music.

Contributing essays examine how creative portrayals challenge traditional boundaries between the visceral and the ideal, the real and the surreal, and embodied experiences and abstraction. The discussions address varied interpersonal ties, ranging from heterosexual and same-sex partnerships to familial, sibling, and political dynamics.

Edited by Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz, this 2017 volume gathers interdisciplinary and multicultural viewpoints to analyze how media representations reflect individual desires, anxieties, and aspirations in an industrialized world.