Virgin territory : representing sexual inexperience in film / edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, Tamar Jeffers.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and television series.

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virginity in motion pictures.

Sex in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A critical and in-depth investigation of how virginity is represented in film.

Contents:

Introduction / Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Velvet's cherry : Elizabeth Taylor and virginal English girlhood / Gaylyn Studlar

The innocent is a broad : American virgins in a global context / Ilana Nash

Virgin springs : a survey of teen films' quest for sexcess / Timothy Shary

Postwar virginity and the "Marjorie" phenomenon / Rebecca Sullivan

One very chic hell : revisiting the issue of virginity in Bonjour Tristesse / Alisia G. Chase

Performances of desire and inexperience : Doris Day's fluctuating filmic virginity / Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Fresh meat? dissecting the horror movie virgin / Pete Falconer

Don't touch me : violating boundaries in Roman Polanski's Repulsion / Nina Martin

Orgasmic (teenage) virgins : masturbation and virginity in contemporary American cinema / Greg Tuck

Love's labor's lost? early 1980's representations of girls' sexual decision making in Fast times at Ridgemont High and Little darlings / Lisa M. Dresner

Was she or wasn't she? virginity and identity in the critical reception of Elizabeth (1998) / Shelley Cobb

The window and the door / Andrea Sabbadini

Irreconcilable feminisms and the construction of a cultural memory of virginity's loss: À ma soeur! and Thirteen / Carol Siegel

The new road to sexual ecstasy : virginity and genre in The 40-year-old virgin / Celestino Deleyto.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9780814336953

0814336957

OCLC:

821725676