Abstract
Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham share a devotion to questioning sexual norms and norms of representation through embodied female performance of sex/uality. Exploring and affirming that which is typically deemed abject or shameful, especially for women, Breillat and Dunham reveal and revise heteropatriarchal uses of female nudity and sexuality, in and out of pornography, that conceal and deny women’s humanity. In so doing, these ‘provocauteurs’ stretch definitional and representational boundaries of ‘feminist’ and ‘porn’. Through examination of Breillat’s films A Real Young Girl (1976), Romance (2000), Fat Girl (2001), Sex is Comedy (2002), and Anatomy of Hell (2004), and of Dunham’s HBO series Girls (2012–), this chapter considers how these screen provocauteurs’ mutual re-envisioning of sex/uality generates a hybridised, politicised mode of feminist ‘art porn’.
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