Screening Sex

Informationen zum Autor University of California, Berkeley Klappentext Renowned film scholar Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how movie goers have watched and experienced those representations. 129 illustrations. Zusammenfassung For many years! kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and! just as important! how we have watched and experienced those representations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction to Screening Sex1 Of Kisses and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896-1963); 2 Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961-1971); 3 Going Further: Last Tango in Paris! Deep Throat! and Boys in the Sand (1971-1972); 4 Make Love! Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978); 5 Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976); 6 Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986-2005); 7 Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990sConclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You!Notes; Bibliography; Index

Autorentext
Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Porn Studies, also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the “Frenzy of the Visible.”

Klappentext
Renowned film scholar Williams investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how movie goers have watched and experienced those representations. 129 illustrations.


Zusammenfassung
For many years, kisses were the only sexual acts to be seen in mainstream American movies. This title investigates how sex acts have been represented on screen for more than a century and, just as important, how we have watched and experienced those representations.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Of Kissing and Ellipses: The Long Adolescence of American Movies (1896–1963) 25
2. Going All the Way: Carnal Knowledge on American Screens (1961–1971) 68
3. Going Further: Last Tango in Paris, Deep Throat, and Boys in the Sand (1971–1972) 112
4. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968–1978) 155
5. Hard-Core Eroticism: In the Realm of the Senses (1976) 181
6. Primal Scenes on American Screens (1986–2005) 216
7. Philosophy in the Bedroom: Hard-Core Art since the 1990s 258
Conclusion: Now Playing on a Small Screen near You! 299
Notes 327
Bibliography 379
Index 397

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