Movies dealing with eroticism are as old as film history itself. Eroticism has always been one of the most popular subjects and can be found in a broad range of film genres from voyeuristic movies of the silent era to romantic love stories, intimate dramas, sex comedies, erotic thrillers, sexploitation films and recent artcore movies.
The popularity and long tradition of cinematic eroticism is, however, not reflected in academic research. On the contrary, compared to other film genres erotic cinema has been largely ignored by film scholars. Much has been written about eroticism in literature and theatre, while in films, and video games for that matter, this subject still seems to be a
terra incognita
. The main concern of the present volume, therefore, is to initiate a revaluation of this underrated chapter of film history.
Reihe
Anglistische, germanistische, romanistische Studien
57
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Höhe: 21 cm
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ISBN-13
978-3-86821-825-1 (9783868218251)
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................... 1
ANGELA FABRIS AND JÖRG HELBIG
From
erotikós
to
sexout
: Literary Knowledge about Eroticism ...................................... 9
SUSANNE BACH
Eroticism and Film
MA L'AMOR MIO NON MUORE! (1913), IL FUOCO (1915)
and the Beginning of Eroticism in Early Italian Cinema .............................................. 17
ANGELA FABRIS
The Diva and the Seduction of Female Sickness in Early Italian Cinema ................... 33
CATHERINE RAMSEY-PORTOLANO
"We love beautiful ladies, and how!"
Cinema nuovo
, Cinematic Eroticism
and Masculinities in Post-war Italy .............................................................................. 45
ELISA MANDELLI AND VALENTINA RE
"The Sexiest Film Ever?" How Michelangelo Antonioni Sexed up British Cinema .... 61
JÖRG HELBIG
Jane Fonda's Orgasms: Bad Sex and Good Sex in the New Hollywood ...................... 73
LINDA WILLIAMS
Of Sex Objects and Sex Subjects: (Fe)male Gaze
and the Capitalisation of the Body in Jerzy Skolimowskis DEEP END ......................... 87
WILLEM STRANK
Sexual Dystopia and Excess in the Italian Erotic Comedy of the 1970s .................... 103
GIOVANNA MAINA AND FEDERICO ZECCA
Shakespearean Double-Play and Illicit Desires:
Erotic Twinship in Lucio Fulci's LA PRETORA ........................................................... 113
WIELAND SCHWANEBECK
The
giallo erotico
: Seduction and Submission
all'italiana
........................................ 127
GEORGI WEHR
The Erotic Triangle: The Feminine Body, the Cinematic Gaze
and the Video Camera ................................................................................................ 137
ANGELA KREWANI
"Maybe it is about you." Intertextuality, Arousal, and World Experience
in Peter Strickland's THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY ......................................................... 147
BENJAMIN MOLDENHAUER
No Sex, Please! Sex and the Erotic in Irish Film and Television ............................... 159
Stephen Doheny and Mark Schreiber
Eroticism and Videogames
For(e)Play: Remediations of Ludic Intercourse ......................................................... 175
FELIX SCHNIZ
The Casanova Fallacies: Hegemonic Masculinity and Sexual Agency
in Videogame Design ................................................................................................. 189
RENÉ REINHOLD SCHALLEGGER
From Dating Simulators to Milestones of Video Game Culture:
Dating Patterns and Eroticism as Reward in Games .................................................. 203
MARIE-LUISE MEIER
Notes on Contributors ................................................................................................ 219
