CivicLAB Event: Ink Tales: The Tattoo in Literature and Film

Tuesday 27th May, 12:30pm, Artcore DE1 2DS

Talk by Professor Katharine Cox, Head of the School of Humanities and Journalism and a Professor of English and Contemporary Culture at the University of Derby

This event considers the practice of contemporary tattooing and its representation in a range of literature and film. The tattoo is a moment of bodily marking but it has a life beyond this. Early depictions of the tattooed body were ambivalent. The tattooed body, that was used by establishment commentators to indicate inner savagery or degeneration, was by the turn of the twentieth century was also being co-opted by fashionable elites, including Royalty. And so, the act of seeing a tattoo triggers a process of detection, whereby representations of contemporary tattooing in literature and film reflect concerns with meaning.

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