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Sex and the cinema / Tanya Krzywinska.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S45 K79 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krzywinska, Tanya.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Wallflower, 2006.
- Summary:
- From the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema with a heady distillation of fleshy passions. Whether laced in the rapturous rhetorics of romance or seeking to pack a harder erotic punch, cinematic representations of sex, sexuality and desire have provided cinema with one of its major attractions. Sex and the Cinema traces the numerous factors and contexts - artistic, institutional, political and socio-cultural - that have shaped the way that sex appears in film. How does cinema mediate sex? Why is sex presented often in transgressive terms? What ideals and values inform cinematic depictions of sex? Given that cinematic representations of sex have perhaps caused more controversy than any others, Sex and the Cinema charts the cultural norms and contestations that are often diversely in play. Formal conventions used to represent sex and desire in cinema, as well as themes such as adultery, incest, romance, sado-masochism and 'real' sex are explored. Films discussed include Don't Look Now, Broken Blossoms, Emmanuelle, Secretary, Close My Eyes, Eyes Wide Shut, Ginger Snaps, The Story of 0, Frenchman's Creek, Baise-moi, Romance, Zandalee, Way Down East, Red Dust, The War Zone and Oedipus Rex.
- Contents:
- Part I Defining Sex in Cinema: Forms and Frameworks
- Forms and Contexts 6
- Knowledge Frameworks 18
- Formal Conventions of Cinematic Sex 27
- Narrative Formulas 49
- Institutional Frameworks: Censorship and Regulation 82
- Part II Themes of Transgression
- Rhetorics and Forms of Transgression 108
- Adultery: Domestic Transgressions 118
- The Beast Within: Animal Transformation and Bestiality 139
- Family Relations: Incest in the Cinema 160
- Bondage, Domination and Sado-Masochism 186
- Real Sex 217
- Coda: Economies of Desire 228.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252) and index.
- Includes filmography: 237-244.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1904764746
- 1904764738
- OCLC:
- 62761811
- Publisher Number:
- 9781904764748
- 9781904764731
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