Sex scene : media and the sexual revolution / Eric Schaefer, ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaefer, Eric, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in mass media.

Sex in motion pictures.

Mass media--Social aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media-film and television, recorded sound, and publishing-that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I Am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, and sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace; the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay

Contents:

Rate it x? : Hollywood cinema and the end of the production code / Christie Milliken

Make love, not war : Jane Fonda comes home (1968-1978) / Linda Williams

The new sexual culture of American television in the 1970s / Elana Levine

Prurient (dis)interest : The American release and reception of I am curious (yellow) / Kevin Heffernan

Wet dreams : erotic film festivals of the early 1970s and the utopian sexual public sphere / Elena Gorfinkel

Let the sweet juices flow : WR and midnight movie culture / Joan Hawkins

33 1/3 sexual revolutions per minute / Jacob Smith

"I'll take Sweden" : the shifting discourse of the "sexy nation" in sexploitation films / Eric Schaefer

Altered sex : Satan, acid, and the erotic threshold / Jeffrey Sconce

The "sexarama" : or sex education as an environmental multimedia experience / Eithne Johnson

San Francisco and the politics of hardcore / Joseph Lam Duong

Beefcake to hardcore : gay pornography and the sexual revolution / Jeffrey Escoffier

Publicizing sex through consumer and privacy rights : how the American Civil Liberties Union liberated media in the 1960s / Leigh Ann Wheeler

Critics and the sex scene / Raymond J. Haberski Jr.

Porn goes to college : American universities, their students, and pornography, 1968-1973 / Arthur Knight and Kevin M. Flanagan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478093497

1478093498

9780822376804

0822376806

OCLC:

1139372403

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access