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Sexual visuality from literature to film, 1850-1950 / Dennis Denisoff.
Van Pelt Library PR878.S49 D46 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denisoff, Dennis, 1961-
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Sex in literature.
- Motion pictures--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- x, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and "noir" literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-218) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403921636
- OCLC:
- 52979126
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