260 results on '"Sex in motion pictures"'
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2. Doris Day confidential : Hollywood, sex and stardom.
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McDonald, Tamar Jeffers
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States ,Sex in motion pictures - Published
- 2013
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3. Hell-Bent for Leather : Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western
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Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, Sara L. Spurgeon, Kerry Fine, Michael K. Johnson, Rebecca M. Lush, and Sara L. Spurgeon
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- Literary criticism, Essays, Western stories--History and criticism, Motion pictures--History.--United States, Television programs--History.--United States, Sex in literature, Gender identity in literature, Sex in motion pictures, Gender identity in motion pictures, Sex on television
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex and sexuality are imagined in weird western literature, film, television, and video games, paying special attention to portrayals of power and privilege. The contributors explore weird western challenges to assumptions about varied genders and sexualities, drawing our attention to how the western can reinforce existing gender and sexual paradigms or overturn them in delightful, terrifying, or unexpected ways. Primary texts range from CBS's campy BDSM-inflected steampunk western The Wild Wild West to the Star Wars franchise's popular leather-daddy bounty hunter The Mandalorian, from Ishmael Reed's satirical postmodern western Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down to C Pam Zhang's acclaimed novel How Much of These Hills Is Gold. Chapters engage texts from Australia and Great Britain, classic horror like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the popular video games BioShock Infinite and The Last of Us II, and less well-known texts like Laguna Pueblo–Navajo author A. A. Carr's erotic vampire/monster slayer western Eye Killers. more...
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- 2025
4. Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults
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Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman, Maureen Turim, and Diane Waldman
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- Intergenerational relations--In motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--History, Sexual consent in motion pictures, Teenagers in motion pictures
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This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media.Analyzing teenage sexual encounters with adults across a variety of media, including films, television, novels, and podcasts, the volume takes a positive stance on the expression of teenage sexuality, while remaining sensitive to the power of adults to abuse and manipulate. The anthology treats these representations as negotiations between conflicting forces: desire, sexual self-knowledge, unequal power, and the law, the latter both actual legal statutes and internalized law in the philosophical and psychoanalytic sense. Questions of unequal power inherent in such relations are theorized. The authors examine variations of this configuration of sexual relations between teenagers and adults from different perspectives, to consider how various forms of expression rework it formally. These essays are attuned to both nuances of presentation and contexts of reception, and they consider how aesthetics play a role.Contributing to the general debate about the ways that societies construct and regulate adolescent sexuality, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of media studies, cultural studies, film studies, television studies, sociology, and gender studies more...
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- 2024
5. The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe: Rape, Art, (S)Exploitation
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Batori, Anna and Batori, Anna
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- Sex in motion pictures, Violence in motion pictures, Motion pictures ‡z Europe, Eastern
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Investigates how contemporary national trends within Eastern Europe correspond to the global stream of transgressive filmmakingHow do Eastern European extreme films deal with violence on an audio-visual, narrative and thematic level?To what extent are shock-tactics deployed differently between world cinema and the post-socialist block? What local variations and specialisms do we find within the region? What do the injured and/or pornographic bodies and sexual abuse represent in the contemporary cinema art and exploitation cinema of Eastern Europe?The Extreme Cinema of Eastern Europe examines extreme, transgressive cinema which developed following a post-2000 wave in filmmaking that aestheticised violence on audio-visual, narrative and thematic levels.Batori investigates the ways in which contemporary national trends from within Eastern Europe correspond to the global stream of transgressive filmmaking and shock aesthetics that have become the dominant markers of world cinema. Do these art productions intend to reveal and criticise aggressions in domestic landscapes or are they part of a contemporary global visual discourse? With a specific focus on gender, this book highlights both nation-specific features of these films and their relationship to global extreme art films. more...
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- 2024
6. The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook : Specialties for Stage and Screen
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Brooke M. Haney and Brooke M. Haney
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- Sex in motion pictures, Sex on television, Sex in the theater, Intimacy coordinators (Performing arts)--Vocatio
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The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, this book aims to bring awareness to a wide range of needs a project may have and how intimacy professionals use their cultural competency specialists in practice to create the most compelling storytelling. In Part One, the book addresses the scope of practice of an intimacy professional by discussing competency, finding your lens and tangential fields in the industry like fight directors, mental health coordinators and cultural competency specialists. Part Two covers specialties like working with minors, prosthetics, intimacy and disability, staging queer intimacy, working with fat actors, Black American intimacy, dance, working on scenes of trauma, sexual violence and non-consent, and BDSM. Between each chapter is a conversation with an actor, director or producer on their experiences working with an intimacy coordinator. In Part Three, the book looks at what it means to be qualified and intimacy professionals'hopes for the future of the industry.The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook is an invaluable resource for directors and producers looking to hire an intimacy professional, as well as in-depth study for those who are training or practicing in the field of intimacy for performance. more...
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- 2024
7. Cyborgs, Ethics, and The Matrix : Simulations of Sex and Gender
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Rebecca Gibson and Rebecca Gibson
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- Cyborgs in motion pictures, Cyberpunk films--History and criticism, Gender identity in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures
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The Matrix (Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski 1999) has permeated our cultural consciousness for two decades, working its way into such common parlance as “a glitch in the Matrix,” and the idea of taking the Red Pill. With the release of the fourth movie, The Matrix Resurrections (Lana Wachowski 2021), and the confirmation of the franchise being a metaphor for gender transition, this book examines how the entire franchise contributes to the discourse on sex and gender, and how it has been instrumental in propelling the creation of new types of cyborg technology. This book centers on the main philosophical theme of The Matrix, know thyself, and relate it to the quest for authenticity which creates our identities—be they human, or human “enough”—as we move through the world. more...
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- 2024
8. Hollywood Sex Comedies, 1953-1964 : A Critical Analysis of 25 Films
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Hal Erickson and Hal Erickson
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- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century, Sex in motion pictures, Comedy films--United States--History and criticism
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The Hollywood'sex comedy'--a feature-length film in which sex motivates the storyline and the laughs are triggered by sexual situations--came into its own with the 1953 release of the once-controversial The Moon Is Blue. That film received very positive critical and audience response despite being denied a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration and receiving a'Condemned'rating from the Legion of Decency. (These two formidable watchdog agencies would continue to be challenged--and audiences would continue to be convulsed--by the abundance of sex comedies still to come.) The present informal survey focuses on 25 selected examples of the genre, released between 1953 and 1964. Along with such familiar works as The Seven Year Itch, The Tender Trap, Pillow Talk and Kiss Me, Stupid, several lesser-known sex comedies like I Married a Woman, The Tunnel of Love, Happy Anniversary and Period of Adjustment are documented, analyzed and placed in context with their times. Some are masterpieces, others mildly amusing and a few downright awful, but all are fascinating artifacts of a bygone era in popular entertainment. more...
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- 2024
9. "Can Michael the Brave love, or not?" : sex and sexuality in Romanian film culture
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Gadalean, Andrei Mihai and Iordanova, Dina
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791.43 ,Romanian cinema ,Film sexuality ,Sex and sexuality ,PN1993.5R6G2 ,Motion pictures--Romania--History ,Gender identity in motion pictures ,Sex in motion pictures - Abstract
This study seeks to trace a history of the representations of sex and sexuality in the Romanian film culture, specifically in relation to the various political, social, and economic factors that have shaped these representations. The assertion of this thesis is that, within the Romanian film culture, there is a continuity evident over the course of the last century, which takes the form of a tension between an impulse to showcase sexuality in an honest, liberated manner, and, opposing it, a systematic compulsion to conceal matters related to sexuality, due to both a tradition of repressed morality, and to an assortment of political and ideological repressive mechanisms. One of the aims of this thesis is to introduce more complex ways of understanding visibility and representation in cinema, beyond the confines of a profit-driven global film culture, therefore the study moves both on a national, and a transnational level. On the one hand, it explores the ways in which sexuality as represented in Romanian films could nuance the discussion concerning sexuality in the cinema. On the other, it looks at how sexuality as represented in other film cultures has travelled to, and has been received within, the specific Romanian context. While a national framework can be seen as limiting, it is also aimed to focus the discussion, and to establish a scope of concrete evidence to illustrate how the specificity of the context constructs specific ways in which sexuality is represented and interacted with at a cinematic level. In Dagmar Herzog's words, "the nation-state is a logical unit to analyse when we are trying to understand changes in laws and government policies; and for most of the twentieth century, it is striking how profound an impact laws have had in shaping national and local sexual cultures and individuals' self-conceptions alike, as well as - for instance, in the case of restrictions on contraceptive products - the actual bodily experiences of sex". The analysis is divided into three main sections. The first focusses on the period between the start of the 20th century and the end of the Second World War, looking at the ways in which the Romanian film culture has communicated with the wider, American and European one, in terms of regulating film sexuality. The middle section moves to investigate how the mutations brought by state socialism in terms of ideology and morality have impacted on the visibility of film sexuality, which has been reduced to the point of sublimation. The final section explores the post-communist period, and the ways in which cinema, in the Romanian film culture, has used sex and sexuality to both reckon with a traumatic past, and alleviate traumas of the present. more...
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- 2019
10. Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema
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Margaret G. Frohlich and Margaret G. Frohlich
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- Sex in motion pictures, Sexual minorities in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Cuba--History and criticism
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This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of youth. While sexual and cinematic cultures have their own unique relation to the public sphere, state institutions, and transnational flows, this book explores tensions, debates, and expressions that unite them. In an investigation of how young filmmakers employ queer strategies of self-making to bring sexual diversity to the screen, Margaret G. Frohlich shows us how cine joven takes part in the socialization of power in Cuba. more...
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- 2023
11. Transgressive Art Films: Extremity, Ethics, and Controversial Images of Sex and Violence
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Kenny, Oliver and Kenny, Oliver
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- Sex in motion pictures, Violence in motion pictures, Transgression (Ethics) in motion pictures, Experimental films, Artists' films, Art in motion pictures
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Explores extremity in films and its ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implicationsProvides a framework for understanding controversial and extreme films A theory of transgressive film that responds to theories of transgression, accounts for multiple contradictory viewer perspectivesOffers an approach that incorporates micro- and macro-scale analysis of filmsProvides a reflection on the ethical and political stakes of scholarly engagement with images of sex, violence, and sexual violenceTransgressive Art Films offers a holistic approach to the way we consider controversial and extreme cinema – not just as individual or grouped texts for analysis – but as artefacts that ought to be considered within a complex network of social factors. This book provides a rigorous framework for understanding some of the most controversial films of the past twenty-five years.The term ‘transgressive art film'designates the phenomenon of a small number of controversial films recuperated each year by the cinema art world as part of an expansion of the definition of film art. Rather than seeing controversial films as aberrations, this book suggests that transgressive art films should be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon and a central plank of cinema's need for newness, innovation, and renewal. By paying attention to all scales of cinema, from close analysis of individual frames, through the discourse constructed around them, up to global distribution and film-festival networks, Transgressive Art Films details how certain kinds of cinematic transgression gain wide-ranging institutional support rather than being ignored or forgotten. more...
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- 2023
12. Sexploitation et controverses américaines : L'art cinématographique de Russ Meyer
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Clément Montcharmont and Clément Montcharmont
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- Pornographic films--History and criticism.--Un, Erotic films--History and criticism.--United S, Sex in motion pictures
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Les films de Russ Meyer sont représentatifs d'une Amérique imaginaire dominée par la violence et la sexualité. Appartenant au genre cinématographique de la sexploitation, son cinéma allait à l'encontre de la censure et des idées puritaines. Par l'esthétique et les thématiques abordées par le réalisateur, l'Amérique cinématographique de Russ Meyer est à la fois critique et apologique des mœurs américaines. Ses provocations filmiques furent sujettes aux controverses.La fiction, l'imaginaire et les fantasmes présents dans ces films se font écho du monde américain des années 1960 aux années 1980. Comment les créations de Russ Meyer représentent la société américaine? Comment ces productions, en apparence triviales, évoquent des idées sociales, sociétales et politiques? more...
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- 2023
13. Adult Themes : British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s
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Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan, Christopher Weedman, Anne Etienne, Benjamin Halligan, and Christopher Weedman
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- Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Ratings--Great Britain--History--20th century, Motion pictures--Censorship--Great Britain--History--20th century
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Between the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with an era marked by social, political, and sexual ferment and upheaval, British filmmakers and censors pushed and guarded the permissible limits of violence, horror, revolt, and sexuality on screen. Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as'the long 1960s'. How did the British Board of Film Censors, harried on one side by the censorious and moralistic, and beset on the other by demands for greater artistic freedom, oversee and manage this provocative body of films? How did the freedoms and restrictions of the X certificate hasten, determine, and reshape post-war British cinema into an artistic, exploitational, and unapologetically adult medium? Contributors to this collection consider these central questions as they take us to swinging parties, on youthful crime sprees, into local council meetings, on police raids of cinemas, and around Soho strip clubs, and introduce us to mass murderers, lesbian vampires, apoplectic protestors, eroticised middle-aged women, and rebellious working-class men. Adult Themes examines both the workings and negotiations of British film censorship, the limits of artistic expression, and a wider culture of X certificate cinema. This is an important volume for students and scholars of British Film History and censorship, Media Studies, the 1960s, and Cultural and Sexuality Studies, while simultaneously an entertaining read for all connoisseurs of British cinema at its most vivid and scandalous. more...
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- 2023
14. Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China
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Lin Song and Lin Song
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- Sexual minorities--China, Kinship--China, Homosexuality--Social aspects--China, Queer theory--China, Sex in motion pictures, Sex in popular culture--China
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What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture's frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture. more...
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- 2022
15. Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment : Raced, Sexed, and Erased
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Carol Siegel and Carol Siegel
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- Sex in motion pictures, Race on television, Race in motion pictures, Jews on television, Jews in motion pictures, Sex on television
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What are the consequences of how Jews are depicted in movies and television series? Drawing on a host of movies and television series from the 1970s to present day, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment explores how the media sexualize and racialize American Jews. Race and sexuality frequently intersect in the depiction of Jewish characters in such shows as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, UnREAL, The Expanse, and Breaking Bad, and in films such as Hester Street, Once Upon a Time in America, Casino, Radio Days, Inglourious Basterds, and Barton Fink. When they do, American sexual norms are invariably challenged or outright broken by these anti-Semitic representations of Jewishness.Insightful and provocative, Jews in Contemporary Visual Entertainment disturbingly reveals the far-reaching influence of popular visual media in shaping how American Jews are perceived today. more...
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- 2022
16. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography : The Pornographic Object of Knowledge
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Jeffrey Escoffier and Jeffrey Escoffier
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- Pornography--History, Sex in motion pictures, Sex customs--History
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Hardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations. more...
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- 2021
17. Sessualità e marketing cinematografico italiano : Industria, culture visuali, spazio urbano (1948-1978)
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Francesco Di Chiara and Francesco Di Chiara
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- Motion pictures--Marketing, Advertising--Motion pictures, Sex in advertising, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures industry--Marketing.--Italy
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Questo volume indaga la relazione tra pubblicità cinematografiche e sessualità in un periodo chiave della storia nazionale, quello che va dalle prime elezioni dell'era repubblicana nel 1948 all'apertura delle prime sale a luci rosse alla fine degli anni Settanta. In questi trent'anni la società italiana passa da un forte controllo di matrice clericale a una fase di totale caduta dei tabù e intrattiene un intenso dialogo con un cinema che, a sua volta, attraversa un vertiginoso processo di sessualizzazione riscontrabile non solo nelle pellicole, ma anche nei materiali promozionali diffusi per le strade e nelle pagine di quotidiani e riviste, i quali vanno a formulare al pubblico proposte eterogenee in merito alla diffusione di nuovi stili di vita e nuovi modi di concepire la sessualità. L'autore analizza questo processo esaminando una serie di questioni che vanno dai meccanismi di funzionamento del marketing cinematografico al rapporto che esso intrattiene con le culture visuali dell'epoca, dalla relazione che i manifesti di contenuto erotico instaurano con lo spazio urbano e con il modo in cui esso viene esperito dai suoi abitanti, fino al ruolo della sessualità nelle pubblicità rivolte agli operatori del settore e alla rappresentazione della cartellonistica nel cinema del periodo. more...
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- 2021
18. Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures : Beyond Norms and Transgression From the Abbasids to the Present Day
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Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera, Serena Tolino, Aymon Kreil, Lucia Sorbera, and Serena Tolino
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- Desire in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Islamic countries--History, Sex in literature, Sex in motion pictures, Women--Islamic countries--Social conditions--Case studies, Sex--Islamic countries--Case studies, Sex customs--Islamic countries, Sex--Religious aspects--Islam, Islam--History, Islamic literature, Arabic--History and criticism, Desire--Religious aspects--Islam
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What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere – emerge from very specific social and historical contexts.The first part of the book examines how people constructed, discussed and challenged sexual norms from the Abbasid to the Ottoman period. The second part looks at literary and cinematic Arab cultural production as a site for the construction and transgression of gender norms. The third part builds on feminist historiography and social anthropology to question simplistic dichotomies and binaries. Each of the contributions shows how understanding of sexualities and the subjectivities that evolve from them are rooted in the mutually-constitutive relationships between gender and political power. In identifying the plurality of discourses on desires, the book goes beyond the dichotomy of norm and transgression to glimpse what different sexual norms have meant at different times across the Middle East. more...
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- 2021
19. Kubrick's Men
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Richard Rambuss and Richard Rambuss
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- Men in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Masculinity in motion pictures
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A provocative re-reading of Stanley Kubrick's work and its focus on masculine desireThe work of Stanley Kubrick amounts to a sustained reflection on the male condition: past, present, and future. The persistent theme of his filmmaking is less violence or sex than it is the pressurized exertion of masculinity in unusual or extreme circumstances, where it may be taxed or exaggerated to various effects, tragic and comic—or metamorphosed, distorted, and even undone.The stories that Kubrick's movies tell range from global nuclear politics to the unpredictable sexual dynamics of a marriage; from a day in the life of a New York City prizefighter preparing for a nighttime bout to the evolution of humankind. These male melodramas center on sociality and asociality. They feature male doubles, pairs, and rivals. They explore the romance of men and their machines, and men as machines. They figure intensely conflicted forms of male sexual desire. And they are also very much about male manners, style, taste, and art.Examining the formal, thematic, and theoretical affiliations between Kubrick's three bodies of work—his photographs, his documentaries, and his feature films—Kubrick's Men offers new vantages on to the question of gender and sexuality, including the first extended treatment of homosexuality in Kubrick's male-oriented work. more...
- Published
- 2021
20. Supersex : Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
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Anna Peppard and Anna Peppard
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- Superhero films--History and criticism, Superheroes, Comic books, strips, etc.--United States--History and criticism, Superhero television programs--History and criticism, Sex on television, Sex in motion pictures, Sex in literature
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2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre's complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks, Supersex offers a fresh—and lascivious—perspective on the superhero genre's historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre's worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. Supersex argues that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even—and sometimes especially—when the capes and tights stay on. more...
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- 2020
21. Resisting Rape Culture Through Pop Culture : Sex After #MeToo
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Kelly Wilz and Kelly Wilz
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- Masculinity in popular culture--United States, Sex in motion pictures, Sex on television, Rape on television, Rape in motion pictures, Rape in popular culture--United States, Sex in popular culture--United States, Masculinity in motion pictures, Masculinity on television
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Resisting Rape Culture through Pop Culture: Sex After #MeToo provides audiences with constructive models of affirmative consent, tender masculinity, and pleasure in popular culture that work to challenge toxic dominant and hegemonic constructions. While numerous scholars have illustrated the many ways mediated culture shape social understandings of sexual violence, this book analyzes texts that might serve to resist rape culture. This project locates how these texts manufacture cinematic or televisual narratives and in turn work to create new realities that encourage cultural and social change. Kelly Wilz analyzes the ways in which we, as a culture, tend to understand sex through visual media and dominant cultural myths, while highlighting productive texts which might serve as a possible corrective to the ways in which sex is ritualized by rules that legitimize violence. Through the lens of productive criticism, Wilz examines how language and dominant ideologies around rape culture and rape myths reinforce systemic violence, and how visual texts might work to reimagine how we might disrupt those ideologies and create new ways to engage in conversations around intimacy and violence. By centering the voices within the #MeToo movement, who actively work to de-normalize sexual assault and abuse, these models provide a useful counter to the deluge of dehumanizing narratives about survivors and sexualized violence. Scholars of pop culture, women's studies, media studies, and social justice will find this book particularly useful. more...
- Published
- 2020
22. Le norme traviate : Saggi sul genere e sulla sessualità nel cinema e nella televisione italiana
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Sergio Rigoletto and Sergio Rigoletto
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- Heterosexuality in motion pictures, Television programs--Italy--History and criticism, Motion pictures--Italy--History and criticism, Sex in motion pictures, Gender identity in motion pictures
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Questo volume esamina alcuni momenti chiave della storia del cinema e della televisione italiana, svelando alcune delle norme che danno forma a un immaginario collettivo e a delle categorie di identificazione per il grande pubblico. Il volume propone di “traviare” queste norme, rendendo visibile il loro potere normalizzante e le esclusioni da esse prodotte. A partire dalle commedie del miracolo economico fino a film più recenti quali Le fate ignoranti e Chiamami col tuo nome, viene tracciato un filo rosso che delinea convenzioni di genere, modelli narrativi e posizionamenti spettatoriali che tendono a naturalizzare una delle norme più invisibili dell'immaginario collettivo: l'eterosessualità. La disamina pone altresì l'attenzione su degli scenari di resistenza alla norma eterosessuale e ai modelli prescrittivi di genere a essa legati. Alcuni di questi scenari hanno dei precisi contorni identitari, in parte legati ai regimi rappresentativi delle soggettività LGBT contemporanee. Altri mettono in discussione questi contorni identitari, invitandoci ad allargare il campo di espressione di genere e a considerare pratiche del corpo e del desiderio alternative. more...
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- 2020
23. Sexualities in the Works of Joss Whedon
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Lewis Call and Lewis Call
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- Sexual minorities in motion pictures, Sex role on television, Sex role in motion pictures, Sex on television, Sex in motion pictures, Sexual minorities on television
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Joss Whedon's works, across all media including television, film, musicals, and comic books, are known for their commitment to gender and sexual equality. They have always encouraged their audiences to love whomever, and however, they wish. This book is a history of the sexualities represented in the works of Joss Whedon and it covers all of Whedon's genres, including fantasy, horror, science fiction, westerns, superhero stories, and Shakespearean comedy. Unique for its consideration of the entire arc of Whedon's two-decade career, from the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season in 1997 through the conclusion of its twelfth (comic book) season in 2018, this book examines in detail both better-known queer sexualities of the LGBTQ+ spectrum, and lesser-known non-normative sexualities. The book includes chapters on Whedon's sexually dominant women and submissive men, sexual pluralism on Firefly, disabled sexualities in Whedon's superhero narratives, zoophilia in Buffy, queer and heteronormative sexualities in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the subversion of the sexual tropes of slasher films in The Cabin in Woods, and dominance and submission in Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. more...
- Published
- 2020
24. Inusuales :$bhogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano /$cJorge González del Pozo, Inela Selimovi? (eds.).
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Jorge González del Pozo, Inela Selimovi? (eds.) and Jorge González del Pozo, Inela Selimovi? (eds.)
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- Sex in motion pictures, Home in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Spain, Gender identity in motion pictures, Politics in motion pictures
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Inusuales: hogar, sexualidad y política en el cine hispano apunta hacia diversas muestras del cine hispano para explorar su denominador principal —lo inusual— cuya presencia, en última instancia, genera críticas sociopolíticas y culturales acerca de los contextos que las inspiran. Aunque responden a contextos culturales diferentes, los ensayos enfatizan ciertos comportamientos, subjetividades y emociones en común que se rebelan contra lo aceptable o lo normativo de maneras suma y sutilmente transgresoras. Como resultado palpable en este estudio, se desvela la tendencia a armar historias donde los protagonistas optan divergentemente por lo liminal y lo poco visible socialmente, solo para hacer resaltar la crítica hacia lo sumamente visible, lo asfixiantemente normativo y lo frecuentemente opresor. Si bien las tres categorías conceptuales —el hogar, la sexualidad y la política— emergen como el eje principal de Inusuales, su otro hilo latente se alberga en las aproximaciones cinematográficas a las emociones y, en menor medida, a las tendencias afectivas. El despliegue de lo emocional desde luego surge tenuemente en estas cintas para facilitar, complicar, e inclusive subrayar, las interacciones intersubjetivas de éxitos, fracasos o regeneraciones dentro y, particularmente, fuera de los espacios hogareños convencionales, así como alejados de las relaciones impuestas por las dinámicas de políticas patriarcales. La dinámica emocional en cada película, cuya intensidad se revela de manera singular y resueltamente descentrada, se debe principalmente a las fragmentaciones intersubjetivas que las reflejan. Dichas fragmentaciones casi siempre se encuentran arraigadas a ultranza en lo socialmente poco normativo —la habilidad de relacionarse con el otro plena, esporádica o accidentalmente y así encolerizar el heteropatriarcado a través de ciertas convergencias político-hogareñas y de sexualidad— que además revela y reajusta la multidimensionalidad relacional que rige lo inusual. more...
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- 2020
25. What Price Hollywood? : Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor
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Elyce Rae Helford and Elyce Rae Helford
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- Sex in motion pictures, Sex role in motion pictures
- Abstract
During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe unsettled producers even as his ticket sales lined their pockets. Fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time than Clark Gable, Cukor quickly earned a double-sided reputation as a'woman's director.'While the label celebrated his ability to help actresses deliver their best performances, the epithet also branded the gay director as suitable only for work on female-centered movies such as melodramas and romantic comedies. Desperate for success after a failed drag film nearly ended his career, Cukor swore to work within Hollywood's constraints.Nevertheless, What Price Hollywood? Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor finds that Cukor continued to explore gender and sexuality on-screen. Drawing on a broad array of theoretical lenses, Elyce Rae Helford examines how Cukor's award-winning films—titles including My Fair Lady and The Philadelphia Story—as well as his lesser-known films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres. Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story of a once-in-a-generation director who produced some of the best films in history. more...
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- 2020
26. Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies : Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity
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Gemma Commane and Gemma Commane
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- Women in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures
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What makes a woman'bad'is commonly linked to certain'qualities'or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies, Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled'bad', sluts or dirty. Through a variety of case studies drawn from qualitative and original ethnographic research, she argues that'Bad Girls'disrupt heterosexual normativity and contribute new embodied knowledge.From neo-burlesque, sex-positive and queer performance art, to explicit entertainment and areas of popular culture; Commane situates'bad'women as sites of power, possibility and success. Through the combination of case studies (Ms T, Empress Stah and RubberDoll, Mouse and Doris La Trine), Gemma Commane offers a challenge to those who think that sexual, slutty, bad, and dirty women are not worth listening to. Significantly, she unpicks the issues generated by women who are complicit in the subjugation, policing and marginalization of'other'women, both in popular culture and in sites of subcultural resistance. more...
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- 2020
27. The Erotic Screen : Desire, Addiction and Perversity in Cinema
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Wolman, Thomas and Wolman, Thomas
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- Alcoholism in motion pictures, Drugs in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures
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The Erotic Screen takes as its starting point that Hollywood movies were steeped in eroticism from the beginning but censorship forced filmmakers to devise hidden sexual subtexts to preserve a film's subliminal eroticism. In this way, Hollywood films seed our collective psyches with unconscious subtexts. Science fiction films are particularly effective, using horror to induce sexual excitement, as studied in'Part I: The nature of desire in a trio of science fiction thrillers.'Another device was to display unrestricted consumption of alcohol and tobacco and gratuitous spending. Today, this is a cliche of mainstream cinema but some filmmakers expose the dark underbelly. The five films scrutinized in'Part II: Portraits of addiction in Hollywood melodrama'make explicit the connections between greed, addictions, and sexuality. Finally, in'Part III: Perverse desire in mainstream cinema,'the nuanced position toward the psychosexual obsessions on view in the films is investigated by posing the provocative question of whether S&M practice can work as a'cure'for psychic suffering, by raising the alarm over sexuality run amok in a suburban community, and by offering a devastating critique of voyeurism's'fatal attraction'to viewers. The Erotic Screen is an investigation of the nature of human sexuality through the medium of film. It stirs up discussion and debate - and helps these movies live on in our minds. more...
- Published
- 2020
28. A Best Practice Guide to Sex and Storytelling : Filming Scenes with Sex and Nudity
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John Bucher and John Bucher
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- Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Sex on television, Television--Production and direction--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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A great deal of storytelling in film and television involves narratives that include sexual situations and nudity. The increased amount of on-line and streaming content outlets has in turn increased the number of narratives that involve these once-taboo subjects. Often, even though directors and producers desire to handle such issues with professionalism, sets become awkward when producing these scenes. A Best Practice Guide to Sex and Storytelling serves as a helpful tool for guiding creators through these waters. Even as the practice has become more common, the environments in which individuals on both sides of the camera work to create sensitive content have not become any more comfortable. To date, there have been no industry guides and little practical instruction on how to approach such important yet delicate scenes. Sex and Storytelling offers theoretical and practical approaches to creating the most effective content, while honoring the dignity and humanity of everyone involved on-set when sexuality and nudity is a part of the story being told. Drawing on John Bucher's professional experience in both high- and low-budget environments and including interviews with players from both sides of the camera, this book provides an essential guide to handling sex and nudity for film and television in a professional manner. more...
- Published
- 2019
29. Willem Dafoe thinks you're 'missing the point' about sex in 'Poor Things'
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Yuan, Jada
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Poor Things (Motion picture) ,Sex in motion pictures ,Actors -- Interviews ,Actresses ,General interest ,News, opinion and commentary - Abstract
Byline: Jada Yuan Willem Dafoe has played some delicious monsters and villains in his time: Green Goblin in 'Spider-Man,' murderous Bobby Peru in David Lynch's 'Wild at Heart,' Max Schreck [...]
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- 2024
30. Melodrama, Self and Nation in Post-War British Popular Film
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Johanna Laitila and Johanna Laitila
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- Nationalism in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Sex, Motion pictures--Great Britain--History--20th century, Melodrama in motion pictures, Crime films--Great Britain--History and criticism
- Abstract
This book investigates the portrayal of nationalities and sexualities in British post-Second World War crime film and melodrama. By focussing on these genres, and looking at the concept of melodrama as an analytical tool apt for the analysis of both sexuality and nation, the book offers insight into the desires, fears, and anxieties of post-war culture. The problem of returning to ‘normalcy'after the war is one of the recurring themes discussed; alienation from society, family, and the self were central issues for both women and men in the post-war years, and the book examines the anxieties surrounding these social changes in the films of the period. In particular, it explores heterosexuality and nationality as some of the most prominent frameworks for the construction of identities in our time, structures that, for all their centrality, are made invisible in our culture. more...
- Published
- 2018
31. Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema : Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture
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Simon Hobbs and Simon Hobbs
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- Violence in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Experimental films, Exploitation films, DVD-Video discs
- Abstract
Using paratextual theory to address the accusations of gimmickry often directed towards extreme art films, Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema focuses upon the DVD and Blu-ray object, analysing how sleeve designs, blurbs, and special features shape the identity of the film. more...
- Published
- 2018
32. Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies
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Damon R. Young and Damon R. Young
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- Motion pictures--United States--History--20th century, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--France--History--20th century
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Beginning in the late 1950s, representations of and narratives about sex proliferated on French and U.S. movie screens. Cinema began to display forms of sexuality that were no longer strictly associated with domesticity nor limited to heterosexual relations between loving couples. Women's bodies and queer sexualities became intensely charged figures of political contestation, aspiration, and allegory, central to new ways of imagining sexuality and to new liberal understandings of individual freedom and social responsibility. In Making Sex Public Damon R. Young tracks the emergence of two conflicting narratives: on the one hand, a new model of sex as harmoniously integrated into civic existence; on the other, an idea of women's and queer sexuality as corrosive to the very fabric of social life. Taking a transatlantic perspective from the late'50s through the present, from And God Created Woman and Barbarella to Cruising and Shortbus, Young argues that cinema participated in the transformation of the sexual subject while showing how women and queers were both agents and objects of that transformation. more...
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- 2018
33. Gender and Sexuality in East German Film : Intimacy and Alienation
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Kyle Frackman, Faye Stewart, Kyle Frackman, and Faye Stewart
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- Motion pictures--Germany (East)--History, Gender identity in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures
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The first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in social, political, and cultural context.The cinema of the German Democratic Republic, that is, the cinema of its state-run studio DEFA, portrayed gender and sexuality in complex and contradictory ways. In doing so, it reflected the contradictions in GDR society in respect to such questions. This is the first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres (from shorts and feature films to educational videos, television productions, and documentaries) and in light of social, political, and cultural contexts. It is also unique in its investigation of previously unresearched subjects, including films and directors that have received little scholarly attention and nonconformist representations of gender and sexual embodiments, identifications, and practices. The volume presents the work of leading scholars on the GDR and allows students and scholars to examine East German film with respect to the acceptance, rejection, or nuanced negotiation of ideas of proper male and female behavior espoused by the country's brand of socialism. Contributors: Muriel Cormican, Jennifer L. Creech, Heidi Denzel de Tirado, Kyle Frackman, Sebastian Heiduschke, Sonja E. Klocke, John Lessard, Larson Powell, Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, Reinhild Steingröver, Faye Stewart, Evan Torner, Henning Wrage. Kyle Frackman is Assistant Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of British Columbia. Faye Stewart is Associate Professor of German at Georgia State University. more...
- Published
- 2018
34. Spanish Erotic Cinema
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Santiago Fouz-Hernandez and Santiago Fouz-Hernandez
- Subjects
- Erotic films--Spain--History and criticism, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Spain
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The first comprehensive scholarly study of Spanish erotic cinema, this book covers a significant part of the history of Spanish film, from the 1920s until the present day. Starting with a study of the kiss in silent films, the volume explores homoerotic narratives in the crusade films of the 1940s, the commodification of bodies in the late Franco period, and the so-called destape (literally ‘undressing') period that followed the abolition of censorship during the democratic transition. Reclaiming the importance of Spanish erotic cinema as a genre in itself, a range of international scholars demonstrate how the explicit depiction of sex can be a useful tool to illuminate current and historic social issues including ageism, colonialism, domestic violence, immigration, nationalisms, or women and LGBT rights. Covering a wide range of cinematic genres, including comedy, horror and melodrama, this book provides an innovative and provocative overview of Spanish cinema history and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. more...
- Published
- 2017
35. The Swedish Porn Scene : Exhibition Contexts, 8mm Pornography and the Sex Film
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Mariah Larsson and Mariah Larsson
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- Sex in motion pictures, Pornographic films--Sweden--Malmo¨--History--20th century, Pornographic films--Sweden--History--20th century, Erotic films--Sweden--Malmo¨--History--20th century, Erotic films--Sweden--History--20th century
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This book presents a close look at the golden age of Swedish pornography in the 1970s, with a specific focus on pornographic films screened in Malmö between 1971 and 1976. How, Mariah Larsson asks, was that one small city's embrace of the era's sexual liberation both representative and unique in relation to the rest of Sweden? Combining historical case studies with comprehensive analyses of advertisements, critical responses and censorship records, Larsson deconstructs the complexities and paradoxes of the Swedish porn scene. Looking as closely at the exhibition spaces where porn was seen as at the productions themselves and their audiences, Larsson reveals the conditions and social changes that allowed pornography in Sweden to flourish in the period. more...
- Published
- 2017
36. Queering the Shakespeare Film : Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism
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Anthony Guy Patricia and Anthony Guy Patricia
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- English drama--Film adaptations, Sex in motion pictures
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood as that which is at odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. The movies chosen for analysis correspond deliberately with those Shakespeare plays that, as written texts, have been subjected to a great deal of productive study in a queer context since the beginnings of queer theory in the early 1990s. Thus the book extends the ongoing queer discussion of these written texts to their counterpart cinematic texts. Queering the Shakespeare Film is a much-needed alternative and complementary critical history of the Shakespeare film genre. more...
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- 2017
37. Constructing Transgressive Sexuality in Screenwriting : The Feiticeiro/a As Character
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LJ Theo and LJ Theo
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- Characters and characteristics in motion pictures, Sex customs, Sex in motion pictures, Motion picture authorship
- Abstract
This book approaches the construction of complex and transgressive ‘pervert'characters in mainstream (not ‘art'), adult-oriented (not pornographic) cinema. It deconstructs an episteme on which to base the construction of characters in screenplays, in a way that acknowledges how semiotic elements of characterisation intersect. In addition, it provides an extended re-phrasing of the notion of ‘the pervert'as Feiticiero/a: a newly-coined construct that might serve as an underpinning for complex, sexual filmic characters that are both entertaining and challenging to audiences. This re-phrasing speaks to both an existential/phenomenological conception of personhood and to the scholarly tradition of the ‘linguistic turn'of continental philosophers such as Foucault and Lacan, who represent language not primarily as describing the world but as constructing it. The result is an original and interdisciplinary volume that is brought to coherence through a queer, post-humanist lens. more...
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- 2017
38. Lust und Laster : Was uns Filme über das sexuelle Begehren sagen
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Parfen Laszig, Lily Gramatikov, Parfen Laszig, and Lily Gramatikov
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- Sex in motion pictures
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Sexualität ist die Triebkraft unserer Leidenschaft, unseres Begehrens.Ehemals ein verborgenes Terrain, heute in der westlichen Welt enttabuisiert, allgegenwärtig und.... langweilig? Das Internet, die Betonung der individuellen Freiheiten wie auch die zunehmende Akzeptanz von ehemals als pervers angesehenen Sexualpraktiken führen dazu, dass die Sexualität ihre geheimnisvolle Aura immer mehr verliert. Erotik und sexuelle Lust leben jedoch von Vorstellungen und Phantasien. Was wird aus unseren sexuellen Träumen, wenn sich in der uns umgebenden Realität alles schon explizit darstellt, zum Träumen nichts mehr bleibt? Filme sind kulturelle Produkte kollektiver Phantasien. In ihnen können wir vielleicht Antworten auf die Frage finden, wie sich heutzutage sexuelles Begehren gestaltet. Namhafte Psychoanalytikerinnen und Psychoanalytiker, schon von Berufs wegen auf den Spuren des Sexuellen, untersuchen zahlreiche Filme zum Thema. more...
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- 2017
39. Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces : Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium
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Maria C. DiFrancesco, Debra J. Ochoa, Maria C. DiFrancesco, and Debra J. Ochoa
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- Cities and towns in motion pictures, Cities and towns in literature, Public spaces--Spain, Sex in motion pictures, Sex in literature, Sex role in motion pictures, Sex role in literature
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This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain. Despite the social progress Spain has made extending equal rights to all citizens, particularly in the wake of the Franco regime and radically liberating Transición, the fact remains that not all subjects—particularly, women, immigrants, and queers—possess equal autonomy. The book exposes visible shifts in power dynamics within the nation's largest urban capitals—Madrid and Barcelona—and takes a hard look at more peripheral bedroom communities as all of these spaces reflect the discontent of a post-nationalistic, economically unstable Spain. As the contributors problematize notions of public and private space and disrupt gender binaries related with these, they aspire to engender discussion around civic status, the administration of space and the place of all citizens in a global world. more...
- Published
- 2017
40. Real Sex Films : The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema
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John Tulloch, Belinda Middleweek, John Tulloch, and Belinda Middleweek
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- Sex role in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures and globalization, Feminism and motion pictures, Feminist film criticism
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Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk sociology, feminist film theory, and critical feminist mapping theory are brought together with concepts of production, narrative, genre, authorship, stardom, spectatorship, and social audience as several lenses of understanding and extension in ways of seeing real-sex cinema. Notions of personal subjectivity and critical distance, disciplinary co-operation and critique, and cinematic perceptions of the utopia and dystopia of love within risk modernity are the tensions exposed reflexively and in parallel, as each chapter focuses different lenses communicating intimacy, desire, risk and transgression. This book substantively, methodologically, and theoretically embraces and engages in its consideration of the images, ethics, double standards, and embodiments of brutal cinema. Crossing the boundaries of film studies, media and cultural studies, the ethnographic turn, risk sociology, feminist psychoanalytical, and geopolitical studies, this is a book for students, academics, as well as general and professional audiences. more...
- Published
- 2017
41. Sexography : Sex Work in Documentary
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Nicholas de Villiers and Nicholas de Villiers
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- Sex role in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Documentary films--History and criticism
- Abstract
The turn of the twenty-first century has witnessed an eruption of nonfiction films on sex work. The first book to examine a cross-section of this diverse and transnational body of work, Sexography confronts the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. Nicholas de Villiers argues that carnal and cultural knowledge are inextricably entangled in ethnographic sex work documentaries.De Villiers offers a reading of cinema as a technology of truth and advances a theory of confessional and counterconfessional performance by the interviewed subject who must negotiate both loaded questions and stigma. He pays special attention to the tactical negotiation of power in these films and how cultural and geopolitical shifts have affected sex work and sex workers. Throughout, Sexography analyzes the films of a range of non–sex-worker filmmakers, including Jennie Livingston, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Shohini Ghosh, and Cui Zi'en, as well as films produced by sex workers. In addition, it identifies important parallels and intersections between queer and sex worker rights activist movements and their documentary historiography.De Villiers ultimately demonstrates how commercial sex is intertwined with culture and power. He advocates shifting our approach from scrutinizing the motives of those who sell sex to examining the motives and roles of the filmmakers and transnational audiences creating and consuming films about sex work. more...
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- 2017
42. Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television
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Kyra Clarke and Kyra Clarke
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- Sex role, Sex on television, Sex in motion pictures
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Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools. This book argues that the representation of complicated—or'messy'—relationships in these popular cultural forms makes them potent as affective pedagogical moments. It endeavours to develop new sexual literacies by contemplating how pedagogical moments, that is, fleeting moments which disrupt expectations or create discomfort, might enrich the available discourses of sexuality and gender, especially those available to adolescents. In Part One, Clarke critiques the heteronormative discourses of sex education that produce youth in particularly gendered ways, noting that'rationality'is often expected to govern experiences that are embodied and arguably inherently incoherent. Part Two explores public intimacy, contemplating the often overlapping and confused boundaries between public and private. more...
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- 2017
43. Sex and Storytelling in Modern Cinema : Explicit Sex, Performance and Cinematic Technique
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Lindsay Coleman and Lindsay Coleman
- Subjects
- Criticism, interpretation, etc, History, Sex in motion pictures, Pornographic films--History and criticism, Motion pictures--History, Coitus, Sexuality, Motion Pictures, Erotica
- Abstract
With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives are pornographic. This book explores how, rather than being pornographic, explicit sex can be an essential element of cinematic storytelling today. Offering detailed analysis of how choices are made in the presentation of explicit sex in often very controversial films, such as'Shame','Baise-Moi','Antichrist','Dogtooth'and'Lust, Caution', the expert contributors - including Barbara Creed, Jacob Held and Linda Ruth Williams - show how sexual content can aid characterisation, highlight themes, and provide events that serve to develop plot. The impact of explicit sex as an element of a film's narrative is also revealed to be assisted by effective, nuanced performances and the incisive deployment of directorial technique. Together they detail through the fundamentals of cinema the shot by shot, moment by moment manner in which explicit sex can be an essential component of a dramatically powerful narrative. more...
- Published
- 2016
44. Abstinence Cinema : Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film
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Casey Ryan Kelly and Casey Ryan Kelly
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- Virginity in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures
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Winner of the 2016 Diane Hope Book of the Year Award from the Visual Communication Division of the National Communication Association From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of Hollywood films produced since 2000, Abstinence Cinema comes to a very different conclusion, finding echoes of the evangelical movement's abstinence-only rhetoric in everything from Easy A to Taken. Casey Ryan Kelly tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. As he demonstrates, these movies are particularly disempowering for young women, concocting plots in which the decision to refrain from sex until marriage is the young woman's primary source of agency and arbiter of moral worth. Locating these regressive sexual politics not only in expected sites, like the Twilight films, but surprising ones, like the raunchy comedies of Judd Apatow, Kelly makes a compelling case that Hollywood films have taken a significant step backward in recent years. Abstinence Cinema offers close readings of movies from a wide spectrum of genres, and it puts these films into conversation with rhetoric that has emerged in other arenas of American culture. Challenging assumptions that we are living in a more liberated era, the book sounds a warning bell about the powerful cultural forces that seek to demonize sexuality and curtail female sexual agency. more...
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- 2016
45. Disposable Passions : Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
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David Church and David Church
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- Sex in motion pictures, Pornographic films--History and criticism, Pornography--Social aspects
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From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s “porno chic,” adult cinema's vintage forms are now being reappraised by a new generation of historians, fans, preservationists, and home video entrepreneurs-all of whom depend on and help shape the archive of film history. But what is the present-day allure of these artifacts that have since become eroticized more for their “pastness” than the explicit acts they show? And what are the political implications of recovering these rare but still-visceral films from a less “enlightened,” pre-feminist past? Drawing on media industry analysis, archival theory, and interviews with adult video personnel, David Church argues that vintage pornography retains its retrospective fascination precisely because these culturally denigrated texts have been so poorly preserved on political and aesthetic grounds. Through these films'ongoing moves from cultural emergence to concealment to rediscovery, the archive itself performs a “striptease,” permitting tangible contact with these corporeally stimulating forms at a moment when the overall physicality of media objects is undergoing rapid transformation. Disposable Passions explores the historiographic lessons that vintage pornography can teach us about which materials our society chooses to keep, and how a long-neglected genre is primed for serious rediscovery as more than mere autoerotic fodder. more...
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- 2016
46. Swedish Cinema and the Sexual Revolution : Critical Essays
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Elisabet Björklund, Mariah Larsson, Elisabet Björklund, and Mariah Larsson
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- Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Sweden--History
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Swedish cinema became recognized for daring representations of sexuality with such films as One Summer of Happiness (1951), The Silence (1963), I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) and a wave of sex films in the late 1960s and 1970s. The association between Swedish film and sexuality shows up frequently in popular culture. From Taxi Driver (1976) to Mad Men (2007-2015), dirty Swedish movie references abound. Yet the connection has attracted little critical attention. In this collection of new essays, Swedish and American scholars go beyond popular misconceptions to explore the origins, influences and reception of sexuality in Swedish cinema during the'sexual revolution'on both sides of the Atlantic. A broad range of topics are covered, from analyses of key films, to a behind-the-scenes study of the Swedish Film Institute, which played a significant role in opposing Swedish film censorship. more...
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- 2016
47. Sex and Violence : The Hollywood Censorship Wars
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Tom Pollard and Tom Pollard
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- Motion pictures--Censorship--History.--Unite, Sex in motion pictures, Violence in motion pictures
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Sex and Violence examines the history and social dynamics of film censorship in the United States. It examines censorship controversies throughout film history, from the beginning of cinema in the 1890s to the present. The book focuses both on formal censorship systems, including state and local censorship boards and industry self-regulation efforts, to unofficial censorship rendered by pressure groups and powerful social movements. It probes beneath the official rhetoric and explanations, revealing sensitive, festering controversies. The book critically examines dozens of Hollywood's most controversial (and interesting) movies, focusing on recurring issues and censorship themes. The book reveals the social and political processes of vetting films and their effect on film form and content. In addition, it examines the use of sexuality and violence in movies and the effects of movie censorship on those issues. Finally, it analyzes and makes recommendations for dramatic changes in motion picture ratings. more...
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- 2016
48. Ästhetik des Pornographischen im zeitgenössischen Film. Eine vergleichende Studie zu Steve McQueens Shame (2011) und Lars von Triers Nymph()maniac (2013)
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Stühl, Leonard and Stühl, Leonard
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- Erotic films, Sex in motion pictures
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Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit dem Phänomen der Pornographie ausgehend von den beiden Spielfilmen Shame (2011) und Nymph()maniac (2013). In diesen Anschauungswerken zeigt sich die Sexsucht oder Nymphomanie als ein komplexes Thema, welches in der bisherigen Filmgeschichte wenig ernsthafte Beachtung fand. Doch gerade in einer Zeit, in der die Pornographie in all ihren Facetten permanent abrufbar ist, liefern solche Werke einen Einblick in die Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Körper und Medien in der modernen Gesellschaft. In der Analyse wird sowohl die filminhärente Ästhetik als auch der von ihr eröffnete Diskurs näher betrachtet. Ferner wird die Position der filmischen Werke in der Mediengeschichte analysiert und eine Definition einer Pornographischen Ästhetik eingeführt und erläutert. more...
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- 2016
49. Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema : Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body
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Joel Gwynne and Joel Gwynne
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- Deviant behavior in motion pictures, Sex in motion pictures, Human body in motion pictures
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Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered dynamics of sex and the body, particularly embodied deviations from normative cultural scripts. It explores transgressions acted through and written on the body, and the ways in which corporeality inscribes gender discourse and reflects cultural and institutional power. Films analyzed include Mysterious Skin (2004), Shame (2011), Nymphomaniac (2013), and Dallas Buyers Club (2013). Navigating queer politics, taboo fantasy, body modification, fetishism, sex addiction, and underage sex, essays problematize understandings of adult agency, childhood innocence, and healthy desire, locating sex and gender as sites of oppression, liberation, and resistance. more...
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- 2016
50. Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality 1909-1925 (Routledge Revivals)
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Annette Kuhn and Annette Kuhn
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- Sex in motion pictures, Motion pictures--Censorship--Great Britain--History, Motion pictures--Censorship--United States--History
- Abstract
First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other institutions, practices and discourses — for example ‘new'knowledge about sexuality and organisations devoted to the promotion of public morality. Instead of censorship simply being an act of prohibition by a special institution, this work reveals the issues at work were far more complex and contradictory — opening up critical scrutiny and challenging assumptions. This title will be of interest to students of media and film studies. more...
- Published
- 2016
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