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

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.

Keywords

• hybrid
• zoophilia
• body deformity
• film
• tail