Sex and storytelling in modern cinema : explicit sex, performance and cinematic technique / edited by Lindsay Coleman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, Lindsay, 1978- editor.

Series:

International library of the moving image ; 19.

International library of the moving image ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in motion pictures.

Pornographic films--History and criticism.

Pornographic films.

Erotic films--History and criticism.

Erotic films.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 251 pages.) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

With full-frontal genitalia, erections, even actual sex featuring increasingly in films, this explicitness in presentation has caused critical consternation and accusations that such film narratives are pornographic. This book explores how, rather than being pornographic, explicit sex can be an essential element of cinematic storytelling today. Offering detailed analysis of how choices are made in the presentation of explicit sex in often very controversial films, such as 'Shame', 'Baise-Moi', 'Antichrist', 'Dogtooth' and 'Lust, Caution', the expert contributors - including Barbara Creed, Jacob Held and Linda Ruth Williams - show how sexual content can aid characterisation, highlight themes, and provide events that serve to develop plot. The impact of explicit sex as an element of a film's narrative is also revealed to be assisted by effective, nuanced performances and the incisive deployment of directorial technique.

Contents:

Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Maîtresse: Pornography, Ritual and the Question of the Animal; 2 What is and is not Porn: Sex, Narrative, and Baise-moi; 3 Perverse Passions: Catherine Breillat's Une vieille maîtresse; 4 Horrible Sex: The Sexual Relationship in New Extremism; 5 Shortbus: Smart Cinema and Sexual Utopia; 6 Becoming Animal in Lust, Caution; 7 Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll: Analysing Aesthetics, Performance and Pleasure in 9 Songs; 8 Tragedy of Hands: Rape in Gaspar Noé's Irréversible.

9 Antichrist, Explicit Sex, Anxiety, and Care; 10 Explicit Teen Sex and Utopian Problem-solving in Ken Park; 11 Witness to the Pain: How Explicit Sex Scenes in Michael Rowe's Leap Year Demonstrate Vision Beyond Visibility; Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857728883 (electronic book)

9780857728135

085772813X

9780857728883

0857728881

OCLC:

1128168434